Elizabeth McCracken
Elizabeth McCracken
Elizabeth McCrackenis an American author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
book ideas library
The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.
lying waiting imagine
After most deaths, I imagine, the awfulness lies in how everything’s changed….there’s a hole. It’s person-shaped and it follows you everywhere…. For us what was killing was how nothing had changed. We’d been waiting to be transformed, and now here we were, back in our old life.
marriage sports believe
I believe marriage is a spectator sport.
miscarriage happy-life missing
It's a happy life, but someone is missing. It's a happy life, and someone is missing.
sadness looks trouble
You can't out-travel sadness. I travel not to get away from my troubles but to see how they look in front of famous buildings
care unhappiness cures
The cure for unhappiness is happiness, I don't care what anyone says.
grief grieving tragedy
Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.
again fact lazy life novel sure time
There was a time in my life when I wasn't sure I'd ever write a short story again because I had started writing novels, and I am fundamentally a lazy person, and the fact is that a novel is a lazy person's form, really. That is, you can amble; you can digress.
books democratic library love loved miss mostly oddball various
There were a lot of things I loved about working in a library, but mostly I miss the library patrons. I love books, but books are everywhere. Library patrons are as various and oddball and democratic as library books.
children claim conversation directly funny natural obsessed opening qualities truth work
Ordinarily, I'd claim that I'd never write directly about my children, but the opening conversation of 'Peter Elroy' is a verbatim conversation that my children had that I just loved: morbid, funny, passionate, and obsessed with the truth of things - all natural qualities of children that I'd like my work to contain.
classes earned last
In the last century, I earned my living as a librarian, and I loved it. I'd have to take some classes to get up to speed with 21st-century librarianship.
archie glowing green science screens wrote
In library science school, back in the years of glowing green non-graphical screens and protocols called Archie and Veronica, I wrote Internet documentation.