No one stopped me from playing when I was alone, but there were times when I wasn't able to, though I wanted… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
In my writing class, we never, ever talk about the writing - ever. We never address a story that's been read. I… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing. — 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
When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go "I need to… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
'What It Is' was based on this class I've been teaching for 10 years - I wanted to write a book about… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
You keep seeing your picture on posters that you are missing but you're not. That'd be weird, right? Or say you look… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or… — 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
