I'm a physical learner. I learn from writing drafts, not reading them. — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing. — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
When I write new worlds, I work in layers, building and throwing out, and building anew. — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I love writing from enclosed spaces: you really learn about your characters when they have tight walls to push against. — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Even the presence of my kids cannot, during those writing hours, disturb me. Unless there's a bone sticking out of their arm,… — 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
The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves. — 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
A female writer does definitely get more attention if she writes about male characters. It's true. It's considered somehow more literary, in… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
When I meet people I try to make a joke out of my occupation, explaining that what I do all day is… — 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
It's not easy to make friends when you're an adult writer outside of academia, especially when you work alone in a little… — 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
A lot of my work comes from a place of despair or fear. I often write in order to gain some sort… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I feel lucky. I do love it, mostly. At college I had it in my heart that I wanted to be a… — 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 feel like in American fiction we're moving out of a period of intense irony, and I'm very glad about that. I… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
The novella is at once the most elegant and demanding form: a writer must balance the looseness of a novel with the… — 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
It's wonderful that nothing you write is ever going to be as beautiful as what's in your head, because that gap is… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
In terms of writing, I think what most fiction writers treasure more than anything is the feeling that they're living for the… — 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
When I write a new draft, I don't like to feel I'm tied to any previous version. That's why I don't use… — 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
“But I can say that if you’re a writer who happens to be a woman, you’ll get a book cover that depicts… — 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 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
