When you think about it, giving up your real personality is a small price to pay for the richness of living happily ever after with an actual man!
Lynda BarryWhen 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.
Lynda BarryThe thing I call ‘my mind’ seems to be kind of like a landlord that doesn’t really know its tenants.
Lynda BarryWhen I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go "I need to write a book. What's a good question?" It will be a question that's just clanging around in my head.
Lynda Barry