Author: Elizabeth McCracken

Quotes

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

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

- Elizabeth McCracken

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

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

- Elizabeth McCracken

It's an amazing thing to watch a lizard fold a moth into its mouth, like a sword swallower who specialises in umbrellas.

It's an amazing thing to watch a lizard fold a moth into its mouth, like a sword swallower who specialises in umbrellas.

- Elizabeth McCracken

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

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

- Elizabeth McCracken

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.'

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.'

- Elizabeth McCracken

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

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

- Elizabeth McCracken

I wanted to acknowledge that life goes on but that death goes on, too. A person who is dead is a long, long story.

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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