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" 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

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Lynda Barry

Kind

Off

" 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?' "

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" 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? "

" I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk. "

" I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up. "

Lynda Barry

Funny

People

" When you are little, you will draw pictures for no reason. "

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

" The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck. "

Lynda Barry

Effortless

I Am

" Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid. "

" People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life. "

" 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. "

" In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke. "

" If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. "

" Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Lynda Barry

Women

People

" 'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't. "

" 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

Horror

" We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay. "

" 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. "