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.
From Elizabeth McCracken
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.
I am not a therapy person, but I understand what therapy does. It's a way of translating dark thoughts into something manageable.
When you've lost a baby, everyone around you expects you to be fine once the new baby is born, as though that somehow takes away the pain of losing the first child. I needed to express how wrong that was.
Once I started writing novels, I understood how hard it was to write really good short stories.
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.
I always want the last line to be really good, which may sound silly, but I want it to be a last pleasing line.
When I was in college, I wrote poetry very seriously, and then once I had started writing short stories, I didn't go back to poetry, partially because I felt like I understood how incredibly difficult it was.
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.
In library science school, back in the years of glowing green non-graphical screens and protocols called Archie and Veronica, I wrote Internet documentation.
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