Lynda Barry Quotes

To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.

As a little girl I loved the thought of playing dress-up and getting ready.

I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool, I wasn't diving, I was flying, like Superman. I used to dream of rescuing a girl I had a crush on from a playground bully.

I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up.

I remember pretending to be the characters in the movies when I was a little kid.

I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head.

I love fantasy; I love imagination - that's the inner child in me.

Childhood is the province of the imagination and when I immerse myself in it, I re-create it as it was, as it could have been, as I wanted - and didn't want - it to be.

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

My mother talked about the stories I used to spin as a child of three, before I started school. I would tell this story about what school I went to and what uniform I wore and who I talked to at lunchtime and what I ate, and my mother was like, 'This girl does not even go to school.'

When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her.

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults.

I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart.

Mr. Disney believed everyone was still a child deep inside.

I feel it's like being a kid and dressing up, because that's what Baby Jane is.

At night I dream about going to where I played when I was still young.

Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.

As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale.

So a lot of me is still a little kid, and I think that kind of helps alter my sense of reality - it makes me able to just become Belle every single night.

As a kid, I spent an awful lot of time pretending I was somebody else. I think growing up in the 1980s wasn't very exciting so you kind of create this secret life of an alternate person. You pretend to be whatever you need to be that day, so you live in that dream world.

Fairy tales were important to me. Aren't they for any kid? My sister says I spent a good five years of my youth convinced I would grow up to be a princess.

My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.

I loved make-believe. I was the child in the cupboard playing with my Barbies.