Elizabeth McCracken Life Quotations

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.'

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

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

I wanted to acknowledge that life goes on but that death goes on, too. A person who is dead is a long, long story.

but you can't spend your whole life hoping people will ask you the right questions. you must learn to love and answer the questions they already ask.

It's a happy life, but someone is missing. It's a happy life, and someone is missing.

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.