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

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

— 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

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of…

— 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

I love writing from enclosed spaces: you really learn about your characters when they have tight walls to push against.

— Lauren Groff

“[Still apparent in him, the tiny boy, mewling in cold and hunger. It’s less delicious, this badness bred from survival.]”

— Lauren Groff

Even still, we run. We have not reached our average of 57.92 years without knowing that you run through it, and it…

— 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

“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

“Even still, we run. We have not reached our average of 57.92 years without knowing that you run through it, and it…

— Lauren Groff

“Lugubrious and pretentious at the same time.”

— Lauren Groff

But I've married a deeply sensible person who is extremely good at talking me down from my various ledges, and who takes…

— Lauren Groff

Writing is the lonely sport of sad sacks.

— 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

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

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

— Lauren Groff

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

— 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

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

— Lauren Groff

“If he cannot be infinite - his lov emeeting its eventual exhaustion, his light its shadows - this is the nature of…

— Lauren Groff

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

— Lauren Groff

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

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

— Lauren Groff