Lauren Groff Quotes

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

  Lauren Groff

  Lying, Writing, Fiction

  Lauren Groff (2012). “The Monsters of Templeton”, p.10, Random House

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

  Lauren Groff

  Past, Sometimes, Trouble

  Lauren Groff (2012). “Arcadia”, p.99, Hachette UK

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• When I was small and easily wounded books were my carapace. If I were recalled to my hurts in the middle of a book they somehow mattered less. My corporeal life was slight the dazzling one in my head was what really mattered. Returning to books was coming home.

  Lauren Groff

  Hurt, Book, Home

  Lauren Groff (2008). “The Monsters of Templeton”, p.100, Hachette UK

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

  Lauren Groff

  Writing, Triumph, Fiction

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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

  Lauren Groff

  Thinking, Brain, Trying

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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• I love Twitter. It's like having a closet full of clever friends that you can visit twice a day, then shove back into the darkness when you're tired of them.

  Lauren Groff

  Clever, Tired, Darkness

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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• Sex is a good starting point for everything.

  Lauren Groff

  Sex, Starting, Starting Point

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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• It's wonderful that nothing you write is ever going to be as beautiful as what's in your head, because that gap is where the art can enter and begin to stretch its limbs.

  Lauren Groff

  Beautiful, Art, Writing

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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• And she, the new mother of a daughter, felt a fierceness come over her that seized at her heart, that made her feel as if her bones were turned to steel, as if she could turn herself into a weapon to keep this daughter of hers from having to be hurt by the world outside the ring of her arms.

  Lauren Groff

  Daughter, Mother, Hurt

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• A lot of my work comes from a place of despair or fear. I often write in order to gain some sort of control over aspects of my life or the world that seem too dark to look at directly.

  Lauren Groff

  Writing, Dark, Order

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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

  Lauren Groff

  Reading, Writing

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• The gender inequality in book reviewing isn't getting better. Male authors get the majority of review coverage, and male reviewers do most of the reviewing. It's kind of devastating.

  Lauren Groff

  Book, Get Better, Kind

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

  Lauren Groff

  World, Moments, Enough

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• I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

  Lauren Groff

  Book, School, People

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• 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

  Desire, Intense, Better Life

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• Writing is the lonely sport of sad sacks.

  Lauren Groff

  Sports, Lonely, Writing

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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

  Lauren Groff

  Thinking, Persons, Magical Thinking

  "Bit and Peace: Lauren Groff's Arcadia". Interview with Clare Stein, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 8, 2012.

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• Research is about following the gleam into the dark. It's also about being sensitive enough to know which fact is "the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders," as opposed to the fact that deadens and kills a delicate new project.

  Lauren Groff

  Dark, Creative, Research

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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• While writing, writers are living inside a character or characters, and when the book ekes into the world, writers are living inside the reader. That's more than connecting.

  Lauren Groff

  Book, Writing, Character

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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• I'm a private person, a shy person. Sometimes, reading for eleven hours straight feels to me like the perfect way to spend a day.

  Lauren Groff

  Reading, Perfect, Shy

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• Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights!; I do think that life must be so much more thrilling when you're actively miserable.

  Lauren Groff

  Fighting, Artist, Thinking

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• I think I'm an optimistic person. Ultimately I believe in people. I believe they can be robust. When my collection Delicate Edible Birds came out there were one or two people who read the title as being a commentary on the characters within the pages, the women in the book, meaning that they were these fragile girls meant for male consumption. But I had meant the opposite - these people are tough. Dark things happen to them but they get on with life as best they can.

  Lauren Groff

  Girl, Believe, Book

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

  Lauren Groff

  Amor, Cease

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• It's not easy to make friends when you're an adult writer outside of academia, especially when you work alone in a little room for twelve hours a day, and so I wrote toward what I most longed for.

  Lauren Groff

  Adults, Twelve, Academia

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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• I'm always hungry for people.

  Lauren Groff

  People, Hungry

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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