I've always relied on producing more material than I need. With each of my published novels I've written around four times the… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Everything is cyclical. Historical eras go through times of intense cynicism, broken by periods of intense idealism. — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
In this moment that blooms and fades as it passes, he is enough, and all is well in the world. — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“Lucrezia has never seen her own face, and cannot know its expressions--how, at that moment, her smile was an explosion.” — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
If you look at communal experiments in general for any amount of time, you'll find a lot of horrors: raped children, sexual… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Fiction is always a utopian task, in that there's an ideal you hold in your head as you write which inevitably fails… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I had a series of terrible jobs, whatever would allow me to write for four hours during the day. During that time… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“we need a mass of ancestors at our backs as ballast. Sometimes, we feel it's impossible to push into the future without… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I think attempting to make art is a utopian process in itself, definitely. Nothing I do is ever equal to the ideas… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Being a writer means I sit in a dark (and pretty dank) room off my garage for many hours a day, and… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
There is part of me that longs to have the back-to-the-earth life - make my own bread, grow my own wheat, just… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I do like Twitter. Writing is a solitary pursuit, and it can get lonely. I like to go into Twitter for a… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“But my best friend from college was silent for a long time. She, of all of my friends, had seen the parade… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I like people, I really do. I like meeting people. But most of the time I would rather be at home reading… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“They sit here in the darkness, trusting. That the coffee will be hot and unpoisoned. That no raging madman will come in… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“But my best friend from college was silent for a long time. She, of all of my friends, had seen the parade of sad… — Lauren Groff Copy Share
You had to pick up a landline to make sure your best friend wore a matching outfit to school. I do remember people talking… — Lauren Groff Copy Share
“Then, when we had done so, we put our hands upon the freezing cold monster, our monster. And this is what we felt: vertigo,… — Lauren Groff Copy Share
I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms. — Lauren Groff Copy Share
“He thinks of the rotten parachute they played with as kids in Arcadia: they hurtle through life aging unimaginably fast, but each grasps a… — Lauren Groff Copy Share
I love writing from enclosed spaces: you really learn about your characters when they have tight walls to push against. — Lauren Groff Copy Share
“[Still apparent in him, the tiny boy, mewling in cold and hunger. It’s less delicious, this badness bred from survival.]” — Lauren Groff Copy Share
Even still, we run. We have not reached our average of 57.92 years without knowing that you run through it, and it hurts and… — Lauren Groff Copy Share
I had a series of terrible jobs, whatever would allow me to write for four hours during the day. During that time I wrote… — Lauren Groff Copy Share
“The stories themselves aren't what moves him now...What moves him are the shadowy people behind the stories, the workers weary from their days, gathering… — Lauren Groff Copy Share
“Even still, we run. We have not reached our average of 57.92 years without knowing that you run through it, and it hurts worse,… — Lauren Groff Copy Share
But I've married a deeply sensible person who is extremely good at talking me down from my various ledges, and who takes care of… — Lauren Groff Copy Share
“They sit here in the darkness, trusting. That the coffee will be hot and unpoisoned. That no raging madman will come in with a… — Lauren Groff Copy Share
