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Elizabeth McCracken
Elizabeth McCracken
American Author
Born: 1966
Good Life Me People Writing You
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
I wanted to acknowledge that life goes on but that death goes on, too. A person who is dead is a long, long story. Elizabeth McCracken
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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. Elizabeth McCracken
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I own an e-reader, but I use it almost exclusively to read things that aren't books - student theses, unbound galleys. Elizabeth McCracken
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At my first library job, I worked with a woman named Sheila Brownstein, who was The Reader's Advisor. She was a short, bosomy Englishwoman who accosted people at the shelves and asked if they wanted advice on what to read, and if the answer was yes, she asked what writers they already loved and then suggested somebody new. Elizabeth McCracken
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I like seeing my physical progress through a volume, particularly if it's a big book. Elizabeth McCracken
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Life likes jokes; life is constantly making jokes, even at the most inopportune moments. Elizabeth McCracken
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I have a memory of my fourth-grade self wanting to be the first woman president of the United States, but I think that has a lot more to do with my love of world records and reference books than a love of serving my country. Elizabeth McCracken
Love Woman Memory World First Country Think President Books States Be The First More Records Self Reference Woman President Lot Than Wanting United United States World Records Serving
I've always been absolutely appalling about the future, but I sort of think that was my childhood religion. We were future deniers. You did your best in the present, which was all around you. Elizabeth McCracken
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When I tell people there are three stories in 'Thunderstruck' that were from the same wrecked novel, they want to guess what they are. Nobody has. There are no characters or timelines in common. They're structured very differently. A good novel wouldn't have pulled apart so easily. Elizabeth McCracken
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I can't imagine not joking even at the worst of times. And for me, it's sort of automatic. Elizabeth McCracken
Me Worst Joking Sort Times Automatic Even Imagine
I sort of don't believe in closure. In the sense that it doesn't make me feel better to think that something is over. Elizabeth McCracken
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I am not a therapy person, but I understand what therapy does. It's a way of translating dark thoughts into something manageable. Elizabeth McCracken
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Once I started writing novels, I understood how hard it was to write really good short stories. Elizabeth McCracken
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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. Elizabeth McCracken
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I always want the last line to be really good, which may sound silly, but I want it to be a last pleasing line. Elizabeth McCracken
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In library science school, back in the years of glowing green non-graphical screens and protocols called Archie and Veronica, I wrote Internet documentation. Elizabeth McCracken
Library Science School Internet Back Archie Wrote Documentation Glowing Veronica Years Green Screens
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. Elizabeth McCracken
Love Library Books Everywhere About Various Miss Democratic Mostly Were Oddball Lot Loved Working Things
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. Elizabeth McCracken
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The thing that most interests me about writing - there are lots of things, but the thing I can't do without - is the hit of happiness a lovely sentence delivers. Elizabeth McCracken
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I have been the person who tries to keep conversation light while talking to someone whose heart has been smashed. Elizabeth McCracken
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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. Elizabeth McCracken
Woman Remember Parents Too Birth Given Physically Recovering Dead Child Afraid Grieving Who
An iron lung looks like an enormous metal coffin or a 19th-century rocket ship: only its occupant's head is left outside, a tight seal around the neck. Elizabeth McCracken
Enormous Only Outside Head Like Looks Around Tight Metal Rocket Ship Left Iron Seal Coffin Lung Neck
A comic strip that your parents read when they were young is a curious thing: it's an heirloom, and it's also intimate. You peer through windows and look at the things that made your elders laugh, and then you wonder whether the laugh really belongs to you. Elizabeth McCracken
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When I first met my husband, he was sculpting Vilnius out of clay - a sort of Vilnius, anyhow: a map of an imaginary European city based on the Lithuanian capital - to illustrate his second novel. Elizabeth McCracken
Husband First Met Out City Clay He Sort His Anyhow Capital Sculpting European Map Novel Based Illustrate Second Imaginary
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. Elizabeth McCracken
Living Speed Earned Librarian Classes Some Take Up Get Loved Century Last Last Century

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