At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing. — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Our human impulse is to control everything, but fiction seems to me to be about allowing an element of mystery into the… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
As soon as you publish a book and the reader reads it, they're making an extension of your brain with their brain. — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I think that writers have natural canvases, and my canvas, even in short stories, often seems to be the scope of a… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I'm a writer, not an actor. I want to write rather than perform. I'm looking forward to disappearing for a while. — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I want to be identified as a writer, not a Southern writer, not a woman writer, not a woman from this or… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Writing by hand is a way of letting mystery into my writing. But I'm constantly trying to figure out how to do… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I'm a private person, a shy person. Sometimes, reading for eleven hours straight feels to me like the perfect way to spend… — 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
“The writing seemed like the books that held it; crumbly and antique and bearing the stink of centuries. Still, it was compelling.… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
When I was small and easily wounded books were my carapace. If I were recalled to my hurts in the middle of… — 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
While writing, writers are living inside a character or characters, and when the book ekes into the world, writers are living inside… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
It's more like I write multiple first drafts, handwritten. So with my first novel, I wrote whole drafts from different points of… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I kept a lot of my thoughts inside myself. So, perhaps more than is normal, I'm always questioning my role as a… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I don't believe that fiction is dead. I know there are some people who believe that it's an outdated art form, and… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image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
