I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that… — 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… — 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
The trouble is that America's become a utopia accessible only to some people. Others get trampled on. Perhaps it's a problem of… — 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 I know there are some people who believe that it's an outdated art form, and… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
If the literary category of 'mordant fable' exists at all, it may be because Brock Clarke invented it. The Happiest People in… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I like people, I really do. I like meeting people. But most of the time I would rather be at home reading… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“They sit here in the darkness, trusting. That the coffee will be hot and unpoisoned. That no raging madman will come in… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
She would always feel this wild girl was the truest of any of the people she had already been: adored daughter, bourgeois… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“If he were more commanding, he would not be a person people would leave.” — 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
Sex makes things strained. There are lovely people in Oneida, but everyone was married to everyone else. And you had fathers 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 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
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