143 Quotes by Lynda Barry

My childhood is always going to limit me.

My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.

My mom didn't want me to go to college. She didn't want me to read - when I read, I may as well have been holding a pineapple.

People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life.

There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work.

Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out.

I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.

I tried to be like the richer kids as much as I could because I wanted to live on their streets, at least hang out on their streets and eat their amazing food and walk barefoot on their shag carpets. I became something of a pest in that way, and in general, other people's parents didn't like me.

When I was working on 'Freddie,' I had been trying to write it on a computer for many, many years, but that delete button just won't let anything go forward.