Lynda Barry
Lynda Barry
Lynda Jean Barry is an American cartoonist and author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth2 January 1956
CountryUnited States of America
running trying ships
I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all.
real knowing joy
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.
writing fate order
If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or bad - you're more likely to see that invisible thing that is invisible for the first few days in any new writing. We just can't know what all is in a sentence until there are several sentences to follow it. Pages of writing need more pages in order to be known, chapters need more chapters.
music singing sound
gospel singing ... is the rawest, sweetest, uninhibited and exquisite sounds a person can make or hear. It isn't music, it's an entire experience you feel and live. A sound to rise you up again.
car feelings body
You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole body.
racism tree racist
The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.
giving-up real men
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!
funny dog
You'll never call him Fifi again.
lonely lonely-places dies
Flies die in so many lonely places. -Roberta Rohbeson
love-is sure-love track
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.If you say "No! I don't want it right now," that's when you'll get it for sure. Love will make a way out of no way. Love is an exploding cigar which we willingly smoke.
enemy imaginary imaginary-friend
what is an imaginary friend? are there also imaginary enemies?
world paper shapes
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.
children believe resilience
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.
etch-a-sketch upside-down turns
If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.