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" 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 distract me from the ride through the horror. "
Lynda Barry
Ride
Me
Horror
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" When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go 'I need to write a book. What's a good question?' It will be a question that's just clanging around in my head. So for 'What It Is,' it was this idea of 'What is an image?' "
Lynda Barry
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" 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
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Thought
" Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. "
Lynda Barry
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" Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time. "
Lynda Barry
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Beautiful
" 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! "
Lynda Barry
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Giving
" I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control. "
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
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You
Book
" 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
" 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
" If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately. "
Lynda Barry
Class
Would
Student
" I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid! "
Lynda Barry
Crazy
Kid
Know
" 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
" 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 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. "
Lynda Barry
Parents
Live
Me
" I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud. "
Lynda Barry
Afraid
Laughed
Loud
" 'What It Is' was based on this class I've been teaching for 10 years - I wanted to write a book about writing that didn't mention stuff like story structure, protagonists, and all those things that we know about only because they already exist in stories. "
Lynda Barry
Know
Story
Book
" 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
" I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals. "
Lynda Barry
Myself
Draw
Cute
" I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk. "
Lynda Barry
People
Talk
Way
" 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
" 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
" My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie. "
Lynda Barry
Write
Comedy
Bucket
" 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
" I think of images as an immune system and a transit system. "
Lynda Barry
Think
Immune
I Think
" I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up. "
Lynda Barry
Funny
Up
People
" In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke. "
Lynda Barry
Joke
Life
Things
" I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading. "
Lynda Barry
Time
Used
Life
" 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
" We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay. "
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World
Reality
Fantasy
" I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all. "
Lynda Barry
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Seem