Lauren Groff
Lauren Groff
Lauren Groffis an American novelist and short story writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 July 1978
CountryUnited States of America
book school people
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.
fighting thinking artist
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.
jobs grace balance
The novella is at once the most elegant and demanding form: a writer must balance the looseness of a novel with the concision of a short story, a feat that only the bravest and most talented of us can manage. In Brazil, Jesse Lee Kercheval proves, yet again, that she is exactly the right writer for the job. A wild American picaresque, Brazil snaps along briskly, yet feels full-fleshed, and brims with a sly wit and grace.
hurt morning pain
Childhood is such a delicate tissue; what they had done this morning could snag somewhere in the little ones, make a dull, small pain that will circle back again and again, and hurt them in small ways for the rest of their lives.
skeletons needs stories
We need the skeletons of other stories to understand our own, sometimes.
amor cease
Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving.
mother daughter hurt
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.
girl depressing lunch
Depressing thought: my friends were the girls I ate lunch with, all buddies from kindergarten who knew one another so well we weren't sure if we even liked one another anymore.
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.
cat black way
If theres a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it.
past sometimes trouble
Sometimes you have to let time carry you past your troubles.
summer son sea
The darkest period of my life, so far, arrived the summer I was pregnant with my eldest son. The future was growing in me with all of its terrifying unpredictability, and I found myself anxious, unable to work and woefully at sea.
clever tired darkness
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.
childhood conventional
My childhood was as conventional as you could get.