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At my first library job, I worked with a woman named Sheila Brownstein, who was The Reader's Advisor. She was a short, bosomy Englishwoman who accosted people at the shelves and asked if they wanted advice on what to read, and if the answer was yes, she asked what writers they already loved and then suggested somebody new.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

Topics: Advice Advisor Answer Asked First Job Library Loved Named New People Read Reader She Shelves Short Somebody Suggested Then Wanted Who Woman Worked Writers Yes

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I like seeing my physical progress through a volume, particularly if it's a big book.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

Topics: Big Book Like Particularly Physical Progress Seeing Through Volume

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Revising stuff lately, I was shocked to see how often my characters scratched their ankles, felt their feet, and touched their own ears.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

Topics: Ankles Characters Ears Feet Felt How Lately Often Own Scratched See Shocked Stuff Touched

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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.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

Topics: Accidentally Another Because Influences More Now Older Other People Powerful Recent Something Steal Suddenly Than Worried Writer Writing

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

~Elizabeth Mccracken

Topics: Human Humor Reminds Sorrow Still You

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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.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

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

~Elizabeth Mccracken

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

~Elizabeth Mccracken

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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.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

Topics: Be The First Books Country First Lot Love Memory More President Records Reference Self Serving States Than Think United United States Wanting Woman Woman President World I Think

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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.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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