I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.
Lynda BarryPlaying and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves mixing up playing with happiness. There can be a kind of amnesia about the seriousness of playing, especially when we played by ourselves.
Lynda BarryThe only reason we find structure in stories is because it's there naturally in human interaction, and in the way that people tell stories.
Lynda BarryThe 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 BarryWhat if she stepped on a needle and it went right into her foot and Roberta would not feel it and the needle would rise and rise and rise through the veins leading up to the heart and then the needle would STAB HER IN THE HEART and Roberta would DIE and it would be VERY PAINFUL this according to nurse mother a medical expert on Freaky Ways to Croak... The mother shouted that she knew several people who died from the Rising Stab of the Unfelt Needle or RSUN she has seen cases of it many times and not ONE PERSON HAS SURVIVED IT.
Lynda Barry