Lynda Barry Quotes

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

You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole body.

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

The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad its there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isnt dead.

I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!

You'll never call him Fifi again.

You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.

For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.

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.

The histories of vampires and people are not so different, really. How many of us can honestly see our own reflection?

I remember my comic strips being called "new wave." It bugged me.

I am about as detailed as a shadow.

but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.

This ability to exist in pieces is what some adults call resilience. And I suppose in some way it is a kind of resilience, a horrible resilience that makes adults believe children forget trauma.

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.

He's picked clean! Eaten by cats!

I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine.

what is an imaginary friend? are there also imaginary enemies?

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.

Flies die in so many lonely places. -Roberta Rohbeson

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

I am hell with a knife and there is nothing I can really do about it but try and keep my mouth shut and try not to let it show.

Ask a burning question, get a burning answer

Something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. Before that, it is something real.