Quotes By Lynda Barry

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.

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

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

I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist.

I am not sure how much I would like being married if I wasn't married to him. A man who likes flea markets and isn't gay? I knew I was lucky.

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.

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.