Lauren Groff
Lauren Groff
Lauren Groffis an American novelist and short story writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 July 1978
CountryUnited States of America
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.
war community half
It seems to me that if you were to take almost any half-century in history, you'd find a grand societal tug-of-war between the community and the individual.
school talking people
You had to pick up a landline to make sure your best friend wore a matching outfit to school. I do remember people talking more. Nostalgia is dangerous, though.
people hungry
I'm always hungry for people.
writing fiction world
The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.
mean dark rooms
Being a writer means I sit in a dark (and pretty dank) room off my garage for many hours a day, and in my wallowing moments I can feel as if I'm already on the outside of society, peering wistfully in.
running kids grandparent
I've never wanted to chuck my mortgage, drop the kids off at their grandparents' and run gloriously naked in fields of flax.
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.
thinking persons magical-thinking
As a person, I do ascribe to a lot of magical thinking myself.
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.
writing happy-life simple
At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing.
community way want
Freedom or community, community or freedom. One must decide the way one wants to live. I chose community.
desire intense better-life
I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.
talking ledges care
But I've married a deeply sensible person who is extremely good at talking me down from my various ledges, and who takes care of me in a billion ways.