Lynda Barry Quotes

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

Love, Time, Down

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.
Lynda Barry

Humor, Time, Try

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

Love, Talk, Matter

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.
Lynda Barry

Humor, Time, Beautiful

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

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

Student, Class, Thrown

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.
Lynda Barry

Funny, Women, Great

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.
Lynda Barry

Thought, Started, Behind

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

Life, Time, Live

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

Life, Joke, Happening

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
Lynda Barry

Love, Smoke, Cigar

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
Lynda Barry

Art, Poetry, School

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

Thought, Word, Name

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

Movies, Older, Color

Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't the kind of thrill I enjoyed.
Lynda Barry

After, Off, While

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.
Lynda Barry

Gay, Him, Married

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.
Lynda Barry

Song, Playing, Mirror

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

Weird, Found, Cute

I go to work the minute I open my eyes.
Lynda Barry

Work, Eyes, Open

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

Whole, Trouble, House

I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.
Lynda Barry

Work, Fear, Live

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

Crazy, True, Since

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

Remember, Comic, Wave

I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all.
Lynda Barry

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

Sleep, Friend, Before

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Cartoonist

Born: January 2, 1956

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