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" I remember my comic strips being called 'new wave.' It bugged me. "
Lynda Barry
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" When you learn about stories in school, you get it backward. You start to think 'Oh, the reason these things are in stories is because a book said I need to put these things in there.' You need a death, as my husband says, and you need a little sidekick with a saying like 'Skivel-dee-doo!' "
Lynda Barry
School
You
Book
" 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. "
Lynda Barry
Kind
People
Me
" I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up. "
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Funny
Up
People
" If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. "
Lynda Barry
Cruise
Time
Will
" 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. "
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Alone
Back
Believe
" Love will make a way out of no way. "
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Will
Make
Out
" My childhood is always going to limit me. "
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Limit
Me
Going
" Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't the kind of thrill I enjoyed. "
Lynda Barry
Kind
Off
Like
" Kids don't plan to play. They don't go: 'Barbie, Ken, you ready to play? It's gonna be a three-act.' "
Lynda Barry
Barbie
You
Ready
" It's much easier to teach writing, because people are less shy about writing. If they're in a group, nobody can see what they're writing. When you're drawing, people get a little more nervous. "
Lynda Barry
Drawing
Writing
People
" No one stopped me from playing when I was alone, but there were times when I wasn't able to, though I wanted to... There were times when nothing played back. Writers call it 'writer's block.' For kids there are other names for that feeling, though kids don't usually know them. "
Lynda Barry
Know
Nothing
Feeling
" If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately. "
Lynda Barry
Class
Would
Student
" For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness. "
Lynda Barry
Color
Movies
Horror Movies
" 'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't. "
Lynda Barry
Story
Good
Good Times
" 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 district I was in included some fine neighborhoods - so I got to know a couple of the kids from those places and went to their houses and experienced such culture shock. "
Lynda Barry
Street
Class
Culture
" Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid? "
Lynda Barry
Walls
Remember
Kid
" I am not sure how much I would like being married if I wasn't married to him. A man who likes flea markets and isn't gay? I knew I was lucky. "
Lynda Barry
Lucky
Man
Like
" When you are little, you will draw pictures for no reason. "
Lynda Barry
You
Pictures
Will
" For 'Picture This,' I wanted it to be a drawing book that didn't have any instructions about drawing, beyond the real simple stuff you'd find like in a Bazooka bubblegum wrapper, or in 'Highlights' magazine. I just wanted it to be feelings about looking and seeing and pictures. "
Lynda Barry
Looking
Drawing
Book
" 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. "
Lynda Barry
Reading
Story
Eye
" 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 out of my mouth. "
Lynda Barry
Dumb
Mirror
Voice
" Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. "
Lynda Barry
Love Is
Love
Exploding
" My strips are not always funny, and they can be pretty grim at times, and I know I lose readers because of it, but I can't do anything about it - my work is very much connected to something I need to do in order to feel stable. "
Lynda Barry
Lose
Feel
Know
" I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud. "
Lynda Barry
Afraid
Laughed
Loud
" The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck. "
Lynda Barry
Am
Effortless
I Am
" 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 to write if they hate what I do? "
Lynda Barry
Why
Work
Never
" I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading. "
Lynda Barry
Time
Used
Life
" The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. "
Lynda Barry
Reading
Poetry
Looking
" I go to work the minute I open my eyes. "
Lynda Barry
Go
Work
Open
" 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. "
Lynda Barry
She
Want
College