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, it’s an invitation to the back of your mind to come forward and reveal to you the perishable images about the day you didn’t notice you noticed at all.
Lynda BarryThe library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
Lynda BarryA man who has been dead for a week in a hot trailer looks more like a man than you would first expect.
Lynda Barry