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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

Topics: Amazing Amazing Thing Fold Like Lizard Moth Mouth Sword Thing Watch Who

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There's a good chance that in 40 years, after the floods, people zipping by on scavenged jetpacks with their scavenged baseball caps on backwards, I will be in my rocking chair saying bitterly, 'I remember when 'all right' was two words.'

~Elizabeth Mccracken

Topics: After Backwards Baseball Caps Chair Chance Floods Good Good Chance People Remember Remember When Right Rocking Rocking Chair Saying Two Will Words Years I Remember

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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

Topics: Arrangement Baseball Baseball Player Between Bring Certain Chair Chairs Could Desk Done Get Me Move Needed Only Player Professional Professional Baseball Really Started Superstitions Then Used Useful Work Worthy Writer

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

~Elizabeth Mccracken

Topics: Constantly Even Jokes Life Likes Making Moments Most

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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

Topics: About Black Humor Life Motto My Motto Speaking Think Times Too Trouble Way World Write Writing You

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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.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

Topics: About Children Claim Contain Conversation Directly Funny Had Just Like Loved Morbid Natural Never Obsessed Opening Ordinarily Passionate Peter Qualities Things Truth Work Write

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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

Topics: Acknowledge Dead Death Goes Life Life Goes On Long Person Story Too Wanted Who

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

~Elizabeth Mccracken

Topics: Been Conversation Heart Keep Light Person Smashed Someone Talking Tries While Who Whose

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

~Elizabeth Mccracken

Topics: Against Art Graphic Level Narrative Panel Paper Some Wrestle You

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I own an e-reader, but I use it almost exclusively to read things that aren't books - student theses, unbound galleys.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

Topics: Almost Books Own Read Student Things Use

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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