People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life. — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
It's not hard for me to be funny in front of people, but most of that is just horrified nerves taking the… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
It's much easier to teach writing, because people are less shy about writing. If they're in a group, nobody can see what… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
The histories of vampires and people are not so different, really. How many of us can honestly see our own reflection? — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk. — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
By the 6th grade I stopped doing ordinary things in front of people. It had been ordinary to sing, kids are singing… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
What if she stepped on a needle and it went right into her foot and Roberta would not feel it and the… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
I tried to be like the richer kids as much as I could because I wanted to live on their streets, at… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up. — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
The only reason we find structure in stories is because it's there naturally in human interaction, and in the way that people… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad its there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals. — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
“As I enter the small intestine I get squeezed by muscles. Its dark and the walls look like slimey crushed velvet theres pancreas juice… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke. — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge. — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
“Above me soft footsteps, the sound through the ceiling of a teenager haunted by a door to the night. My cousin Maybonne lights up… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
