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

I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals.

Lynda Barry

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

Lynda Barry

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 I'm interested in.

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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?

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If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.

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

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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.

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When I was working on 'Freddie,' I had been trying to write it on a computer for many, many years, but that delete button just won't let anything go forward.

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Love will make a way out of no way.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.

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

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I go to work the minute I open my eyes.

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I am about as detailed as a shadow.

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

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Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.

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I am not sure how much I would like being married if I wasn't married to him. A man who likes flea markets and isn't gay? I knew I was lucky.

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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!'

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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.

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In my writing class, we never, ever talk about the writing - ever. We never address a story that's been read. I also won't let anyone look at the person who's reading. No eye contact; everybody has to draw a spiral. And I would like to do a drawing class where we could talk about anything except for the drawing. No one could even mention it.

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I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth.

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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.

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Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?

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

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My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.

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My childhood is always going to limit me.

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

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

Lynda Barry

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

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

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