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

~Elizabeth Mccracken

Topics: Bumble Feel Forward Like Novels Really Time Understand I Feel I Feel Like

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When I tell people there are three stories in 'Thunderstruck' that were from the same wrecked novel, they want to guess what they are. Nobody has. There are no characters or timelines in common. They're structured very differently. A good novel wouldn't have pulled apart so easily.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

Topics: Apart Characters Common Differently Easily Good Guess Nobody Novel People Pulled Same Stories Structured Tell Three Very Want Were Wrecked

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Short fiction is like low relief. And if your story has no humor in it, then you're trying to look at something in the pitch dark. With the light of humor, it throws what you're writing into relief so that you can actually see it.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

Topics: Actually Dark Fiction Humor Light Like Look Low Pitch Relief See Short Something Story Then Throws Trying Writing You Your

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I can't imagine not joking even at the worst of times. And for me, it's sort of automatic.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

Topics: Automatic Even Imagine Joking Me Sort Times Worst

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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

Topics: Believe Better Closure Feel Make Me Over Sense Something Sort Think

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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.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

Topics: Amazing Both Fear Here How Humor Jury Many Me Programs Read Really Seem Talented Texas Them Two University Writers Young Young Writers

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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

Topics: Am Dark Does Manageable Person Something Therapy Thoughts Translating Understand Way I Am

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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

Topics: Around Away Baby Born Child Everyone Expects Express Fine First First Child How Losing Lost Needed New New Baby Once Pain Somehow Takes Though Wrong You

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Once I started writing novels, I understood how hard it was to write really good short stories.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

Topics: Good Hard How Novels Once Really Short Short Stories Started Stories Understood Write Writing

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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.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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