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You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.

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Lynda Barry
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 2
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
University Teacher
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No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.
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These are very confusing times. For the first time in history a woman is expected to combine: intelligence with a sharp hairdo, a raised consciousness with high heels, and an open, nonsexist relationship with a tan guy who has a great bod.
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but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.
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I am about as detailed as a shadow.
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The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck.
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I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.
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The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad its there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isnt dead.
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Love will make a way out of no way
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You'll never call him Fifi again.
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When 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.
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Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.
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You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole body.
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I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!
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My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.
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I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do?
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Then how can you ever know about the beautiful goodness of Mud? How bad it wants to be things. How bad it wants to get on your legs and arms and take your footprints and handprints and how bad it wants you to make it alive! Mud is always ready to play with you. Seriously you should try it!
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This ability to exist in pieces is what some adults call resilience. And I suppose in some way it is a kind of resilience, a horrible resilience that makes adults believe children forget trauma.
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I remember my comic strips being called new wave. It bugged me.
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If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.
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If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.
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