Elizabeth Crook Quotes

• As for anticipation, you never know what to expect of a book. They're like kids: you bring them into the world, fret about them, and then at some point there's no other option but to turn them lose and see how they do.

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  Book, Kids, World

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• [My brother] was older, and since the law of the west was fairly entrenched in our household, whoever was bigger got control of the television. I sat mesmerized, and horrified, through hundreds of gunfights and became emotionally involved with everyone in Bonanza and Gunsmoke.

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  Brother, Law, West

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• When I started escaping to a neighbor's house to watch what I darn well pleased, it turned out to be The Big Valley. Every afternoon my friend and I would pour grape juice over mounds of ice cream and settle in to see what was happening with Barbara Stanwyck and Linda Evans and the boys in The Big Valley.

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  Boys, Ice, Escaping

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• When Larry Wright won the Pulitzer for The Looming Tower we all strutted around for weeks, until some sourpuss among us noted that it was actually Larry, and not the rest of us, who won the prize.

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  Towers, Week, Looming

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• It took me ten years to write The Night Journal, so that was a big ordeal.

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  Writing, Night, Years

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• Sabía por libros anteriores que no debía contar con nada en cuanto a ventas. Mi primera novela -La novia del cuervo, sobre el desastroso primer matrimonio de Sam Houston- se vendió bien y llamó la atención, pero mi segundo libro -Tierras prometidas, sobre la Revolución de Texas- no lo hizo.

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  Book, Texas, Land

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• Promised Lands was a better book in my opinion, and it's still my mother's favorite of the three I've done, but I doubt anyone who isn't a blood relative has ever heard of it. Which is to say expectations aren't worth much in the book world.

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  Mother, Book, Land

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• I love Austin. It's great here. I don't mind the heat.

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  Mind, Austin, Heat

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• I grew up thirty miles down the highway in San Marcos, and I've still got family there, so I guess I'm pretty well rooted.

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  Grew Up, Thirty, Miles

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• I love the writers in Austin. We stick together. We all like each other and go to each other's book signings in case no one else shows up.

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  Book, Together, Austin

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• Voy por la mitad de una novela ambientada en dos épocas: Austin en los años sesenta y Alpine (Texas) en la actualidad. Empezó siendo un libro pequeño, desenfadado y humorístico sobre las relaciones familiares; estaba cansado de escribir historias bélicas y tragedias.

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  War, Humorous, Book

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• Angle of Repose is one of my favorite books. I fell in love with it in college. When I submitted The Night Journal to my agent she got very excited because she said it reminded her of Angle of Repose.

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  Book, Night, College

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• Sería una tontería comparar mi escritura con la de Wallace Stegner, pero probablemente ese libro me influyó de maneras de las que ni siquiera me di cuenta mientras escribía El diario de la noche.

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  Libro, Escritura, Noche

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• I got hooked on TV westerns back in the early sixties when I was about five, mostly because my brother was addicted to them and wouldn't let me watch anything else.

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  Brother, Watches, Tvs

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• El Diario Nocturno ha recibido dos premios de los que me siento muy orgullosa: el Espolón de Western Writers of America y el Premio Literario Willa de Women Writing the West. Estos dos grupos están llenos de grandes escritores y buenas personas.

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  Escritura, Noche, Dos

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• As for whether genre considerations influence what I write, they don't at all, but I might sell more books if they did. The Night Journal is a hodge-podge of historical fiction, western, mystery, and contemporary domestic drama. It doesn't settle into a specific market, reviewers have a hard time describing it, and sometimes it gets classified weirdly in bookstores. But from a writer's standpoint, I like that it's hard to categorize.

  Elizabeth Crook

  Drama, Book, Writing

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• It seems like the Western genre has crept out of its casings during the last few years, and expanded to include books and movies we wouldn't originally have thought of as westerns.

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  Libro, Años, Dura

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• The defining aspects of westerns are still pretty much in place - namely landscape and conflict. In other books the conflict can be internal, but in westerns it usually plays out on a big stage.

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  Book, Play, Defining

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• When I was six I wanted to be a ballerina. By the time I was eight I was fairly sure this plan wasn't panning out. I began aspiring to be an "Aquamaid" at a resort called "Aquarena Springs" in my hometown of San Marcos: Aquamaids got to wear mermaid tails and feed milk bottles underwater to Ralph the Swimming Pig for an audience submerged in a "submarine".

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  Spring, Swimming, Eight

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• I changed my hopes to being a singer [when I was a child] and sat around with my hair in my face droning Mac Davis songs. Writing was sort of a last stand. Come to think of it, it was the only "talent" I had that anyone asked for more of.

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  Canción, Niños, Escritura

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• I love the mystery, the reconstruction of history, and the way past and future define each other.

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  Past, Way, Mystery

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• I think when you're a writer most of what you read influences you. The rhythms get into your head.

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  Thinking, Influence, Rhythm

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• In middle school I wrote a paper on Hemingway and none of the sentences had more than five words.

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  School, Paper, Middle

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• I wrote a paper [in school] on [William] Faulkner and no one could tell what the sentences meant.

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  School, Paper, Sentences

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• The author with the greatest influence on me is my friend Stephen Harrigan, who critiques everything I write before I even bother to show it to my agent or editor. He's a truly great writer - author of Gates of the Alamo and other books you might know of, and his instincts about what's working in a story, and what's not, are just about perfect. My books would be very different without his influence.

  Elizabeth Crook

  Book, Writing, Editors

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