Lauren Groff

“Stubborn heart,' I said. 'Long memory. Bad mix.”

— Lauren Groff

I'm always hungry for people.

— Lauren Groff

“He can only bear tragedy if it's abstract.”

— Lauren Groff

My childhood was as conventional as you could get.

— Lauren Groff

“...right now, right now, I am strange. It is strange. This life is strange. For now, only for now, I am happy.”

— Lauren Groff

Sometimes you have to let time carry you past your troubles.

— Lauren Groff

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.

— Lauren Groff

“The first years had been delirious, the latter ones merely happy.”

— Lauren Groff

When I write new worlds, I work in layers, building and throwing out, and building anew.

— Lauren Groff

“Pay attention, he thinks. Not to the grand gesture, but to the passing breath.”

— Lauren Groff

In this moment that blooms and fades as it passes, he is enough, and all is well in the world.

— Lauren Groff

We need the skeletons of other stories to understand our own, sometimes.

— Lauren Groff

Our human impulse is to control everything, but fiction seems to me to be about allowing an element of mystery into the…

— Lauren Groff

“Go back to what you know,” she said. “I don’t know anything,” he said. “You know me,” she said. He looked at…

— Lauren Groff

“Publilius Syrus come to me: Amor animi arbitrio sumitur, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving.”

— Lauren Groff

Plays are just all sort of playful asides, and there's a great deal of reference here to Greek mythology, plays, and dramas.…

— Lauren Groff

“Oh, no, I am dying, Ilya says. Not sick. I am born dying. But I am not so unusual. There are many…

— Lauren Groff

“And what hurts him most is the gleam of peace he'd had: he would rather imagine his wife tortured in a secret…

— Lauren Groff

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

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

“But my best friend from college was silent for a long time. She, of all of my friends, had seen the parade…

— Lauren Groff

“And this was what we felt: vertigo, an icicle through our strong hearts, our long-lost childhoods. Sunshine in a field and crickets…

— Lauren Groff

“Then he tells his son, "This feels like that breath you take after coming up from a long swim underwater. The most…

— Lauren Groff

“The stories themselves aren't what moves him now...What moves him are the shadowy people behind the stories, the workers weary from their…

— Lauren Groff

“If he cannot be infinite - his love meeting its eventual exhaustion, his light its shadow - this is the nature of…

— Lauren Groff

As with most of my work, I started from the abstract, from research, building an intellectual model that slowly became internalized when…

— Lauren Groff

In my totally unscientific yet enthusiastic survey of Communal Experiments Throughout American History, I've discovered that the thing most likely to break…

— Lauren Groff

Reading about utopianism, and eventually creating characters with their own utopian ambitions, was the way I learned to live with being a…

— Lauren Groff

“It was the people, the interconnection, everyone relying on everyone else, the closeness. The villages are all dying now, small-town America is…

— Lauren Groff

“Until I talked to Primus Dwyer, I wouldn’t decide anything on the Lump,”

— Lauren Groff

I try not to think too much or be too impatient, and let the back of my brain do its mysterious work.

— Lauren Groff

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

“Her old body against his old body, unbeautiful in aging. But together, they were still beautiful, somehow.”

— Lauren Groff

Freedom or community, community or freedom. One must decide the way one wants to live. I chose community.

— Lauren Groff

At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing.

— Lauren Groff

“...because when you've had a good enough Teacher, you're all your own Leaders.”

— Lauren Groff

I'm kind of a control freak. But there are others like me.

— Lauren Groff

Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving.

— Lauren Groff

“Bit believes the treats' chemical afterburn is what the world beyond Arcadia must taste like.”

— Lauren Groff

The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.

— Lauren Groff