Lauren Groff quotes

At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing. (Lauren Groff)
I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms. View quote
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In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies. View quote
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Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights!; I do think that life must be so much more thrilling when you're actively miserable. View quote
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The darkest period of my life, so far, arrived the summer I was pregnant with my eldest son. The future was growing in me with all of its terrifying unpredictability, and I found myself anxious, unable to work and woefully at sea. View quote
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If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it. View quote
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My childhood was as conventional as you could get. View quote
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I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older. View quote
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The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves. View quote
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A lot of my work comes from a place of despair or fear. I often write in order to gain some sort of control over aspects of my life or the world that seem too dark to look at directly. View quote
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I'm a private person, a shy person. Sometimes, reading for eleven hours straight feels to me like the perfect way to spend a day. (Lauren Groff)
Sex is a good starting point for everything. View quote
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I try not to think too much or be too impatient, and let the back of my brain do its mysterious work. View quote
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I'm a physical learner. I learn from writing drafts, not reading them. View quote
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While writing, writers are living inside a character or characters, and when the book ekes into the world, writers are living inside the reader. That's more than connecting. View quote
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In this moment that blooms and fades as it passes, he is enough, and all is well in the world. View quote
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Total intimacy is a myth; that said, a particular kind of loneliness can be both beautiful and fruitful. View quote
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I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms. In America, possibly because of whatever the American dream is, this happens over and over again. These eras repeat. View quote
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I once spent an entire night in a hotel in New York looking across the way into someone's apartment where nothing was happening but daily life, a phone call, television watching, staring into the fridge. Seeing how those strangers lived over that small distance and in absolute silence moved me deeply. View quote
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I am a person beset with fears, and one of my fears is that this thing that I will be writing for five years won't work. And the likelihood, of course, is that it won't - and that's fine. View quote
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A lot of books about marriage are about marriages falling apart. (Lauren Groff)
Time is the currency - the highest valued currency we have now. And people giving you their time is so incredible. They don't have to like your book, either. That's a totally separate gift. View quote
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We're all functions of our societies, right? And we all become who we are because of the invisible forces that mold us. View quote
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Marriage seems to be predicated on protecting a very deep and intimate form of mystery. View quote
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I seem to long for community and mistrust it in equal measure, and so I spend most of my days carefully constructing various communities in stories and seeing if they fly. View quote
Lauren Groff

Lauren Groff

Occupation: American Novelist
Born: July 23, 1978
Quotes count: 41

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