Author: Elizabeth McCracken

Quotes

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

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

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 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

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 believe in God or statistics or the way your narrative differs from other people.

You believe in God or statistics or the way your narrative differs from other people.

- 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

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