Lynda Barry
Lynda Barry
Lynda Jean Barry is an American cartoonist and author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth2 January 1956
CountryUnited States of America
hands intuition watches
Always watch the hands. The hands will tell you everything you need to know.
love funny-valentines-day funny-love
Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
eye minutes
I go to work the minute I open my eyes.
wall real cat
something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. before that, it is something real. what caused the disillusionment? no one told me the print on the wall was just ink and paper and had no life of its own. at some point the cat stopped blinking, and i stopped thinking it could.
jokes happenings ifs
In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.
reason spend-time willing
You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.
baby stupid fall
The groove is so mysterious. We're born with it and we lose it and the world seems to split apart before our eyes into stupid and cool. When we get it back, the world unifies around us, and both stupid and cool fall away. I am grateful to those who are keepers of the groove. The babies and the grandmas who hang on to it and help us remember when we forget that any kind of dancing is better than no dancing at all.
beautiful fool helping
Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.
art thinking interesting
When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of becoming an artist or becoming famous or whatever it is that people do, but rather a way of making being in the world not just bearable, but fascinating, then it starts to get interesting again.
book hands alive
When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?
dream art beer
Sometimes, I think the only art left for us is slowly peeling the label off a beer bottle while somebody tells you about a dream they had.
writing names missing
You keep seeing your picture on posters that you are missing but you're not. That'd be weird, right? Or say you look down at the sidewalk and earthworms are spelling your name. Or you open a peanut bag and the 'hello' is written in your writing on the inside of the shell. Would that weird ya?
children wall kids
Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?
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.