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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

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When I was in college, I wrote poetry very seriously, and then once I had started writing short stories, I didn't go back to poetry, partially because I felt like I understood how incredibly difficult it was.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

Topics: Back Because College Difficult Felt Go Had How Incredibly Like Once Poetry Seriously Short Short Stories Started Stories Then Understood Very Writing Wrote

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For about half an hour in mid-1992, I knew as much as any layperson about the pleasures of remote access of other people's computers.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

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In library science school, back in the years of glowing green non-graphical screens and protocols called Archie and Veronica, I wrote Internet documentation.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

Topics: Back Documentation Glowing Green Internet Library School Science Screens Veronica Wrote Years

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There were a lot of things I loved about working in a library, but mostly I miss the library patrons. I love books, but books are everywhere. Library patrons are as various and oddball and democratic as library books.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

Topics: About Books Democratic Everywhere Library Lot Love Loved Miss Mostly Oddball Things Various Were Working I Love

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Tweeting about objects means I don't need to bid on them, which is a blessing. Buying something is a way of saying, 'Look at this!' So is tweeting. So, I guess, is writing fiction.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

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There was a time in my life when I wasn't sure I'd ever write a short story again because I had started writing novels, and I am fundamentally a lazy person, and the fact is that a novel is a lazy person's form, really. That is, you can amble; you can digress.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

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The thing that most interests me about writing - there are lots of things, but the thing I can't do without - is the hit of happiness a lovely sentence delivers.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

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In general, I think people are worried about saying the wrong thing to any grieving person. On a very basic level, I think they're frightened of touching off tears or sorrow, as though someone tearing up at the mention of unhappy news would be the mentioner's fault.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

Topics: About Any Basic Fault Frightened General Grieving Level Mention News Off People Person Saying Someone Sorrow Tearing Tears Thing Think Though Touching Unhappy Up Very Worried Would Wrong Wrong Thing I Think

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Remember that a woman who has given birth to a dead child has given birth and is recovering physically, too. Don't be afraid of grieving parents.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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