Lauren Groff
Lauren Groff
Lauren Groffis an American novelist and short story writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 July 1978
CountryUnited States of America
writing dark order
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.
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.
wall character writing
I love writing from enclosed spaces: you really learn about your characters when they have tight walls to push against.
writing world layers
When I write new worlds, I work in layers, building and throwing out, and building anew.
sports lonely writing
Writing is the lonely sport of sad sacks.
writing fiction world
The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.
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.
writing happy-life simple
At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing.
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.
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.
lying writing fiction
In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.
giving-up school kids
There is part of me that longs to have the back-to-the-earth life - make my own bread, grow my own wheat, just be really self-sufficient - but I am not, at the moment, willing to give up the luxury of modern life, and amazing schools for my kids, and things that I've come to rely on that are parts of society.
sex dirty dark
In my totally unscientific yet enthusiastic survey of Communal Experiments Throughout American History, I've discovered that the thing most likely to break up said experiments is: Sex, all that murky, dark, dirty gunk simmering beneath human relations.
children eugenics looks
If you look at communal experiments in general for any amount of time, you'll find a lot of horrors: raped children, sexual slavery, eugenics experiments, on and on.