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 Th…

- Elizabeth Crook

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

- Elizabeth Crook

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 marr…

- Elizabeth Crook

[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…

- Elizabeth Crook

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

- Elizabeth Crook

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 La…

- Elizabeth Crook

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.

- Elizabeth Crook

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 rela…

- Elizabeth Crook

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 …

- Elizabeth Crook