Top 53 Quotes by Elizabeth McCracken

About Elizabeth McCracken

These are some quotes by American author Elizabeth McCracken Author, who was born in 1966.

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.

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

I used to be a writer with superstitions worthy of a professional baseball player: I needed a certain desk chair and a certain armchair and a certain desk arrangement, and I could only get really useful work done between 8 P.M. and 3 A.M. Then I started to move, and I couldn't bring my chairs with me.

Elizabeth McCracken

I am not a therapy person, but I understand what therapy does. It's a way of translating dark thoughts into something manageable.

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

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

I have been the person who tries to keep conversation light while talking to someone whose heart has been smashed.

I have been the person who tries to keep conversation light while talking to someone whose heart has been smashed.

Elizabeth McCracken

I always want the last line to be really good, which may sound silly, but I want it to be a last pleasing line.

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

I work in my office on the campus of the University of Texas. It's the sort of place described as 'book-lined', but it's recently tipped over into 'fire-hazard' territory.

I work in my office on the campus of the University of Texas. It's the sort of place described as 'book-lined', but it's recently tipped over into 'fire-hazard' territory.

Elizabeth McCracken

I have children, and this notion - that there might be a single book that introduces children to literature - terrifies me. But you could do worse than Mary Norton's 'The Borrowers.' I loved it as a kid, and my kids love it, too.

Elizabeth McCracken

Some graphic narrative art presses against the panel: you wrestle with it at the level of the paper.

Some graphic narrative art presses against the panel: you wrestle with it at the level of the paper.

Elizabeth McCracken

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.

Elizabeth McCracken

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