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When it comes to other people's writing, my older influences are more powerful than more recent ones, partially because I'm now more worried that I'll suddenly accidentally steal something from another writer.

From Elizabeth McCracken

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

From 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.'

From Elizabeth McCracken

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

From Elizabeth McCracken

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.

From Elizabeth McCracken

Ordinarily, I'd claim that I'd never write directly about my children, but the opening conversation of 'Peter Elroy' is a verbatim conversation that my children had that I just loved: morbid, funny, passionate, and obsessed with the truth of things - all natural qualities of children that I'd like my work to contain.

From Elizabeth McCracken

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

From Elizabeth McCracken

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.

From Elizabeth McCracken

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.

From Elizabeth McCracken

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

From Elizabeth McCracken

Elizabeth McCracken

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