Lauren Groff

Sex is a good starting point for everything.

— Lauren Groff

“Lugubrious and pretentious at the same time.”

— Lauren Groff

“There was the stink of burning martyr in the air.”

— Lauren Groff

“They can wound, stories, they can blister.”

— Lauren Groff

“Famous people consume us because we are bored.”

— Lauren Groff

Writing is the lonely sport of sad sacks.

— Lauren Groff

“Even when you think you can't bear it, you can bear it.”

— Lauren Groff

“[Doomed people celebrate peace with sky bombs.]”

— Lauren Groff

“A man living in a place that doesn't change doesn't expect it ever will.”

— Lauren Groff

“...no genius, I am a girl who knows too much to know anything at all...”

— Lauren Groff

“Little Sally is beheading daisies on the drive... couldn't be more eloquent if she could speak...”

— Lauren Groff

“That's how it went, the gentle ones died quiet while the mean ones thrived. Sickened me unto death all my life.”

— Lauren Groff

I'm a physical learner. I learn from writing drafts, not reading them.

— Lauren Groff

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

As a person, I do ascribe to a lot of magical thinking myself.

— Lauren Groff

“If he were more commanding, he would not be a person people would leave.”

— Lauren Groff

I'm ambivalent about the Orange Prize. I was really proud to be shortlisted alongside the other writers, whom I admire. That said,…

— Lauren Groff

“He thinks of the rotten parachute they played with as kids in Arcadia: they hurtle through life aging unimaginably fast, but each…

— Lauren Groff

The gender inequality in book reviewing isn't getting better. Male authors get the majority of review coverage, and male reviewers do most…

— Lauren Groff

The darkest period of my life, so far, arrived the summer I was pregnant with my eldest son. The future was growing…

— Lauren Groff

“As I touched the beast I remembered how, even on that long-ago night, I could feel a tremendous thing moving in the…

— Lauren Groff

You had to pick up a landline to make sure your best friend wore a matching outfit to school. I do remember…

— Lauren Groff

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that…

— Lauren Groff

I had a series of terrible jobs, whatever would allow me to write for four hours during the day. During that time…

— Lauren Groff

“There is no ending, no neatness... where water is concerned. It is wild, febrile, kind, ambiguous; it is dark and carries the…

— Lauren Groff

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

And she, the new mother of a daughter, felt a fierceness come over her that seized at her heart, that made her…

— Lauren Groff

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

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

When I meet people I try to make a joke out of my occupation, explaining that what I do all day is…

— Lauren Groff

“He will miss this quiet full of noise: the nighthawks, the way the woods breathe, the things moving unsuspected through the dark.…

— Lauren Groff

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

“Peace, he knows, can be shattered in a million variations: great visions of the end, a rain of ash, a disease on…

— Lauren Groff

“Your life seems simple,' Lancelot said. Leo Sen said, 'My life is beautiful.' Lancelot saw that it was. He was enough of…

— Lauren Groff

My son is actually named after Beck, the musician. We heard Beck on the radio and thought that was a good nickname…

— Lauren Groff

“Then, when we had done so, we put our hands upon the freezing cold monster, our monster. And this is what we…

— Lauren Groff

“They sit here in the darkness, trusting. That the coffee will be hot and unpoisoned. That no raging madman will come in…

— Lauren Groff

I think I'm an optimistic person. Ultimately I believe in people. I believe they can be robust. When my collection Delicate Edible…

— Lauren Groff

I'm an anxious person in general, but something about being pregnant and awaiting the release of my first book, The Monsters Of…

— Lauren Groff

She would always feel this wild girl was the truest of any of the people she had already been: adored daughter, bourgeois…

— Lauren Groff