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Elizabeth Crook (born 1959) is an American novelist specializing in historical fiction. Her nonfiction work has been published in anthologies and periodicals such as Texas Monthly and Southwestern Historical Quarterly.

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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.

Changed, Children, Face, Song, Songs, Writing

[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.

Brother, Emotionally, Law, Older, Television

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.

Book, Defining, Internal, Landscape, Play, Pretty

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.

Anticipation, Book, Bring, Kids, Lose, World

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

Journal, Night, Ordeal, Writing, Years

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.

Down, Grew, Grew Up, Guess, Miles, Thirty

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.

Book, Genre, Lasts, Like, Thought, Years

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

Hemingway, Middle, Paper, School, Sentences

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

Austin, Heat, Love, Mind

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.

Book, College, Excited, Night, Repose

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

Head, Influence, Influences, Rhythm, Thinking, Writer

I knew from previous books not to count on anything in terms of sales. My first novel - -The Raven's Bride, about Sam Houston's disastrous first marriage - -sold well and got attention, but my second book - -Promised Lands, about the Texas Revolution - -didn't.

Book, Disastrous, Land, Lands, Promised, Texas

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.

Blood, Book, Done, Expectations, Mother, World

I'd be a dope to compare my writing with Wallace Stegner's, but that book probably influenced me in ways I didn't even realize while I was writing The Night Journal.

Book, Compare, Night, Wallace, Writing

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.

Author, Book, Editors, Everything, Write, Writing

I'm halfway through a novel set in two time frames - Austin in the 1960's and Alpine (Texas) in present day. It started out to be a small, lighthearted, humorous book about family relationships; I was tired of writing war stories and tragedies.

Book, Humorous, Present, Stories, War, Writing

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.

Brother, Hooked, Let, Sixties, Tvs, Watches

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