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 Read Quote
For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness. Lynda Barry Read Quote
For ‘Picture This,’ I wanted it to be a drawing book that didn’t have any instructions about drawing, beyond the real simple stuff you’d find like in a Bazooka bubblegum wrapper, or in ‘Highlights’ magazine. I just wanted it to be feelings about looking and seeing and pictures. Lynda Barry Read Quote
What It Is’ was based on this class I’ve been teaching for 10 years – I wanted to write a book about writing that didn’t mention stuff like story structure, protagonists, and all those things that we know about only because they already exist in stories. Lynda Barry Read Quote
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. Lynda Barry Read Quote
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. Lynda Barry Read Quote
I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up. Lynda Barry Read Quote
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. Lynda Barry Read Quote
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. Lynda Barry Read Quote
