“He thinks of the rotten parachute they played with as kids in Arcadia: they hurtle through life aging unimaginably fast, but each… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“...right now, right now, I am strange. It is strange. This life is strange. For now, only for now, I am happy.” — 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
Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights!; I do think that… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“Your life seems simple,' Lancelot said. Leo Sen said, 'My life is beautiful.' Lancelot saw that it was. He was enough of… — 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
“...all I'm saying is that worrying about it isn't going to fix anything. The only thing we can do is keep on… — 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
The darkest period of my life, so far, arrived the summer I was pregnant with my eldest son. The future was growing… — 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
“He keeps his deepest belief tight to him: that people are good and want to be good, if only you give them… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“Her husband had wooed her with his leather jacket, his pompadour, his motorcycle. Small things to trade for a life, but at… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 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
“[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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
