No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected. Lynda Barry More Quotes by Lynda Barry More Quotes From Lynda Barry If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. Lynda Barry valentines-day heartbreak love We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay. Lynda Barry able reality world are memories pictures or the secret doorway? Lynda Barry secret doorways memories The only reason we find structure in stories is because it's there naturally in human interaction, and in the way that people tell stories. Lynda Barry reason people If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.If you say "No! I don't want it right now," that's when you'll get it for sure. Love will make a way out of no way. Love is an exploding cigar which we willingly smoke. Lynda Barry sure-love track love-is Sometimes, I think the only art left for us is slowly peeling the label off a beer bottle while somebody tells you about a dream they had. Lynda Barry dream beer art What year is it in your imagination? Lynda Barry imagination years 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. Lynda Barry writing book You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason. Lynda Barry spend-time willing reason When 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 Barry people art thinking I go to work the minute I open my eyes. Lynda Barry minutes eye something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. before that, it is something real. what caused the disillusionment? no one told me the print on the wall was just ink and paper and had no life of its own. at some point the cat stopped blinking, and i stopped thinking it could. Lynda Barry wall cat real Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time. Lynda Barry fool helping beautiful Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. Lynda Barry funny-love funny-valentines-day love The groove is so mysterious. We're born with it and we lose it and the world seems to split apart before our eyes into stupid and cool. When we get it back, the world unifies around us, and both stupid and cool fall away. I am grateful to those who are keepers of the groove. The babies and the grandmas who hang on to it and help us remember when we forget that any kind of dancing is better than no dancing at all. Lynda Barry grandma stupid baby But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to? Lynda Barry praying jesus You keep seeing your picture on posters that you are missing but you're not. That'd be weird, right? Or say you look down at the sidewalk and earthworms are spelling your name. Or you open a peanut bag and the 'hello' is written in your writing on the inside of the shell. Would that weird ya? Lynda Barry missing names writing I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control. Lynda Barry constant i-can dark At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive. Lynda Barry play children art When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive? Lynda Barry alive book hands
