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Elizabeth McCracken

Acknowledgment of grief – well, it makes feeling the grief easier, not harder.

– Elizabeth McCracken

Elizabeth McCracken

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

Elizabeth McCracken

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

Elizabeth McCracken

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

– Elizabeth McCracken

Elizabeth McCracken

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

Elizabeth McCracken

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

Elizabeth McCracken

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

Elizabeth McCracken

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

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.

– Elizabeth McCracken

Elizabeth McCracken

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

– Elizabeth McCracken

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

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.

– Elizabeth McCracken

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