Lauren Groff
Lauren Groff
Lauren Groffis an American novelist and short story writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 July 1978
CountryUnited States of America
community way want
Freedom or community, community or freedom. One must decide the way one wants to live. I chose community.
amor cease
Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving.
writing fiction world
The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.
writing tasks fiction
Fiction is always a utopian task, in that there's an ideal you hold in your head as you write which inevitably fails in the moment of creation, in the insufficiency of words to convey meaning, or in the way the work is completed in the reader's head.
beautiful art writing
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.
baseball player luck
I won't walk under scaffolding or under ladders. I wear things like a baseball player wears things that are supposed to have luck. I am superstitious about everything.
skeletons needs stories
We need the skeletons of other stories to understand our own, sometimes.
reading night way
I see ghosts everywhere, and that is partially a function of my being incredibly near-sighted and reading way too late into the night.
book character writing
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.
book writing thinking
In terms of writing, I think what most fiction writers treasure more than anything is the feeling that they're living for the length of a book inside another person.
dark creative research
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.
sports lonely writing
Writing is the lonely sport of sad sacks.
academia littles rooms
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.
writing world layers
When I write new worlds, I work in layers, building and throwing out, and building anew.