Quotes by 'Elizabeth McCracken'

Elizabeth McCracken

Elizabeth McCrackenis an American author...

afraid birth dead given grieving recovering remember

Remember that a woman who has given birth to a dead child has given birth and is recovering physically, too. Don't be afraid of grieving parents.

good hard understood

Once I started writing novels, I understood how hard it was to write really good short stories.

constantly life likes

Life likes jokes; life is constantly making jokes, even at the most inopportune moments.

children hard protecting

It's hard to know which made me more aware of the impossibility of protecting children - having a child die or having had two live.

based moved none

In 'Property,' none of the characters are based on any real people, but the house is very much the house that I moved into in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

assume astounded decidedly mine music people

I'm astounded by people who can listen to music when they write. I can only assume that they have multi-track brains, while mine is decidedly single.

I own an e-reader, but I use it almost exclusively to read things that aren't books - student theses, unbound galleys.

physical

I like seeing my physical progress through a volume, particularly if it's a big book.

bumble time

I feel like I don't understand time in novels, really. I bumble forward, is all.

therapy

I am not a therapy person, but I understand what therapy does. It's a way of translating dark thoughts into something manageable.

good last line pleasing

I always want the last line to be really good, which may sound silly, but I want it to be a last pleasing line.

humor reminds

Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.

access computers hour knew pleasures

For about half an hour in mid-1992, I knew as much as any layperson about the pleasures of remote access of other people's computers.

Acknowledgment of grief - well, it makes feeling the grief easier, not harder.