If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
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Lynda Barry
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About Lynda Barry
Linda Jean Barry, known professionally as Lynda Barry, is an American cartoonist. Barry is best known for her weekly comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek. She garnered attention with her 1988 illustrated novel The Good Times are Killing Me, about an interracial friendship between two young girls, which was adapted into a play. Her second illustrated novel, Cruddy, first appeared in 1999. Three years later she published One! Hundred! Demons!, a graphic novel she terms "autobifictionalography". What I…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Lynda BarryMy goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.
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…
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.
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.
I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.
Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.
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If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.
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 st…
I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.
I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.