The point of the daily diary exercise is not to record what you already know about what happened to you in the last 24 hours. Instead, itโs an invitation to the back of your mind to come forward and reveal to you the perishable images about the day you didnโt notice you noticed at all.
Lynda BarryThe histories of vampires and people are not so different, really. How many of us can honestly see our own reflection?
Lynda BarryI'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 BarryThe 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