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" 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
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" 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. There can be a kind of amnesia about the seriousness of playing, especially when we played by ourselves. "
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Find
Forget
" I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist. "
Lynda Barry
Stay
Little
Friend
" I tried to be like the richer kids as much as I could because I wanted to live on their streets, at least hang out on their streets and eat their amazing food and walk barefoot on their shag carpets. I became something of a pest in that way, and in general, other people's parents didn't like me. "
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Me
" My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie. "
Lynda Barry
Write
Comedy
Bucket
" I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up. "
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Up
People
" 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. "
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Dumb
Mirror
Voice
" 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. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking. "
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Me
Women
People
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud. "
Lynda Barry
Afraid
Laughed
Loud
" 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. "
Lynda Barry
Story
You
Trouble
" 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
" Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out. "
Lynda Barry
Out
Tease
Trying
" 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. "
Lynda Barry
Alone
Back
Believe
" It's one thing to have a relationship, to lay your hands on it, and another to make it continue and last. That's something I haven't talked about much in my comic strips, and it's certainly something I'm interested in. "
Lynda Barry
Much
Your
Hands
" 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
" 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 everyone's work. "
Lynda Barry
Beautiful
Work
Time
" 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
" The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck. "
Lynda Barry
Am
Effortless
I Am
" For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness. "
Lynda Barry
Color
Movies
Horror Movies
" I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid! "
Lynda Barry
Crazy
Kid
Know
" If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately. "
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Class
Would
Student
" I think of images as an immune system and a transit system. "
Lynda Barry
Think
Immune
I Think
" Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. "
Lynda Barry
Love Is
Love
Exploding
" Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid. "
Lynda Barry
Very
Easiest
Race
" In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke. "
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Joke
Life
Things
" I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer. "
Lynda Barry
Always
Never
Thought
" 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. "
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Looking
Drawing
Book
" Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet. "
Lynda Barry
Think
Sometimes
Planet