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This reads as a defense of curiosity, especially the kind that listens closely to how people actually speak. It suggests that overheard speech can feed both content and craft, giving the speaker raw material and rhythm, and it lands for anyone writing dialogue, people-watching, or noticing how ordinary conversation reveals character.
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About Lynda Barry
American cartoonist
Lynda Barry is an American cartoonist known for her long-running comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek. Her work spans comic strips, illustrated novels, and graphic novels, and she has also written about creativity and the making of art. She drew wider attention with The Good Times are Killing Me, an illustrated novel from 1988 about an interracial friendship between two young girls, later adapted for the stage. She later published Cruddy, One! Hundred! Demons!, and What It Is, a mixed memoir, collage, and workbook that offers exercises for opening creative work. What It Is won the 2009 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work.
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