Elizabeth McCracken
Elizabeth McCracken
Elizabeth McCrackenis an American author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
ideas people execution
And while I was not an admirer of people in the specific, I liked them in the abstract. It is only the execution of the idea that disappoints.
dream kissing hands
truthfully, this is the fabric of all my fantasies: love shown not by a kiss or a wild look or a careful hand but by a willingness for research. i don’t dream of someone who understands me immediately, who seems to have known me my entire life, who says, i know me too. i want someone keen to learn my own strange organization, amazed at what’s revealed; someone who asks, and then what, and then what?
gay soul brain
There are writers who can show you the excellence of their brains and writers who show you the depths of their souls: I don't know any writer who does both at the same time as brilliantly as Roxane Gay.
memorable weather meals
Enough fine weather and money and a few memorable meals make any place desirable.
omission nonfiction sin
In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior.
marriage sports believe
I believe marriage is a spectator sport.
prayer engagement eating
Engagements - they are like a prayer before eating, best quick.
amazing both fear humor jury programs seem talented university writers
There are two MFA programs here at the University of Texas, and I read on the jury of both of them. And it's amazing to me how many really talented young writers seem to fear humor.
conversation tries whose
I have been the person who tries to keep conversation light while talking to someone whose heart has been smashed.
humor reminds
Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.
therapy
I am not a therapy person, but I understand what therapy does. It's a way of translating dark thoughts into something manageable.
bumble time
I feel like I don't understand time in novels, really. I bumble forward, is all.
physical
I like seeing my physical progress through a volume, particularly if it's a big book.
humor life motto speaking trouble
You write the way you think about the world. My motto in times of trouble - and I'm speaking of life, not writing - is 'no humor too black.'