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Quotes by Lynda Barry - (11 quotes)

Lynda Barry - From the Criticism category:

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? (Lynda Barry)

Lynda Barry - From the Depression category:

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)

Lynda Barry - From the Drawing category:

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)

Lynda Barry - From the Eccentricity category:

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)

Lynda Barry - From the Humour category:

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)

Lynda Barry - From the Humour category:

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

Lynda Barry - From the Life category:

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

Lynda Barry - From the Profession category:

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)

Lynda Barry - From the Teaching category:

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

Lynda Barry - From the Words category:

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)

Lynda Barry - From the Work category:

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