Lynda Barry Quotations | Page 2

Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out.

My mom didn't want me to go to college. She didn't want me to read - when I read, I may as well have been holding a pineapple.

My childhood is always going to limit me.

I believe a kid who is playing is not alone. There is something brought alive during play, and this something, when played with, seems to play back.

When you think about it, giving up your 'real' personality is a small price to pay for the richness of 'living happily ever after' with an actual man!

In my writing class, we never, ever talk about the writing - ever. We never address a story that's been read. I also won't let anyone look at the person who's reading. No eye contact; everybody has to draw a spiral. And I would like to do a drawing class where we could talk about anything except for the drawing. No one could even mention it.

It's not hard for me to be funny in front of people, but most of that is just horrified nerves taking the form of what makes people laugh, and afterwards I'd always feel dreadfully depressed, kind of self-induced bi-polar disorder.

The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad it's there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isn't dead.

Remember when you were in school and the teacher would put a picture under an overhead projector so you could see it on the wall? God, I loved that. Tellya the truth, I used to look at that beam of light and think it was God.

Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.