Lynda Barry Quotes

I was always fascinated by the fact that you could take paper and ink and create worlds, images, characters. It seemed like magic.

When you go to the theater, you are slipping out of your life into someone else's imaginary world.

You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.

I love picture books - with picture books, you can use words and pictures as a double act, even tell two different versions of a story at the same time.

It seemed uncanny that words, spread across a page just so, had the power to transport me to another time or place. But they could.

The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me.

A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.

Subject matter that is not bound to reality offers more opportunity to write a unique story and cinematically present it in very unique ways.

I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.

My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual.

I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.

The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature?

There's a powerful magic about being a writer that I still marvel at.

I used to go outside every day and invent these elaborate worlds and scenarios in my head, and when I grew too old for playing pretend, I started to write everything down instead.

I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.

Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal

Writing, even though it's hard work, is really a joy when you get these characters to come alive. It's hard to trace where they come from. I can't say that I am sitting here one night at nine o'clock and that a character occurs to me. The magic for me happens at the typewriter.

Writing stories, adopting other characters, making up fantastic stories and tales, this is a way of perhaps enhancing who I am. Writing stories takes a commonplace old life and makes it all somehow more interesting. And hopefully I can do that in a way that touches a lot of people in their lives, too.

The difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows. Fiction is pure joy - how sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction.

There are two categories of writers, it could be said: The author who is just a voice, and the one who is also creating a picture. I belong to the latter, because I have an acute visual sense.

Literature exists because the world isn't enough.

The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations.

I like to make films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost in another world. And film to me is a magical medium that makes you dream... allows you to dream in the dark. It's just a fantastic thing, to get lost inside the world of film.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams