Best Lynda Barry Quotes
- I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud. Afraid
- My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie. Bucket
- Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid? Able
- The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck. Effortless
- 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 in… Analyze
- We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay. Able
- Part of a horror movie has to be a bit fakey for me to really enjoy it. The new ones are so realistic that they… Bit
- Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves mixing up playing with happiness.… Amnesia
- The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street, but the school… Class
- I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great.… Any
- I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming… Barry
- Love will make a way out of no way Funny
- Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid Class
- I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother… Awfulness
- You'll never call him Fifi again. Call
- When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of becoming an artist… Art
- Sometimes, I think the only art left for us is slowly peeling the label off a beer bottle while somebody tells you about a dream… Art
- People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life. Happened
- If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or bad - you're… All
- You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing. Book
- What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile. Future
- We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay. I believe we have always done this, used… Able
- The point of the daily diary exercise is not to record what you already know about what happened to you in the last 24 hours.… All
- By the 6th grade I stopped doing ordinary things in front of people. It had been ordinary to sing, kids are singing all the time… Accidentally
- You may be a lady but you are still the man! Inspirational