Lauren Groff

“Famous people consume us because we are bored.”

— Lauren Groff

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

— Lauren Groff

“Lugubrious and pretentious at the same time.”

— Lauren Groff

Sex is a good starting point for everything.

— Lauren Groff

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

— Lauren Groff

I'm always hungry for people.

— Lauren Groff

My childhood was as conventional as you could get.

— Lauren Groff

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

— 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

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

— Lauren Groff

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

— Lauren Groff

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

— Lauren Groff

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

— Lauren Groff

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

— Lauren Groff

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

— Lauren Groff

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

— 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

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

“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

“My Templeton is to Cooperstown as a shadow is to the tree that spawned it; an outline that takes texture from the…

— Lauren Groff

“I never sleep late, and I know what this means: the worst cowards are the ones who refuse to look at what…

— Lauren Groff

I love Twitter. It's like having a closet full of clever friends that you can visit twice a day, then shove back…

— Lauren Groff

I see ghosts everywhere, and that is partially a function of my being incredibly near-sighted and reading way too late into the…

— 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

“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

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

— 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

“we need a mass of ancestors at our backs as ballast. Sometimes, we feel it's impossible to push into the future without…

— Lauren Groff

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

The novella is at once the most elegant and demanding form: a writer must balance the looseness of a novel with the…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

“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

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

— Lauren Groff