Quotes by 'Elizabeth McCracken'

Elizabeth McCracken

Elizabeth McCrackenis an American author...

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.

humor reminds

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

good hard understood

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

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.

characters felt revising scratched stuff touched

Revising stuff lately, I was shocked to see how often my characters scratched their ankles, felt their feet, and touched their own ears.

itself life outside whatever

Sadness was something I was thinking about in my life outside of writing, so it wormed itself into whatever I wrote.

art graphic narrative wrestle

Some graphic narrative art presses against the panel: you wrestle with it at the level of the paper.