Lauren Groff quotes - page 2

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. (Lauren Groff)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Freedom or community, community or freedom. One must decide the way one wants to live. I chose community. View quote
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Everything is cyclical. Historical eras go through times of intense cynicism, broken by periods of intense idealism. View quote
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When I write new worlds, I work in layers, building and throwing out, and building anew. View quote
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Our human impulse is to control everything, but fiction seems to me to be about allowing an element of mystery into the text. View quote
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When I write a new draft, I don't like to feel I'm tied to any previous version. That's why I don't use a computer to write. The text looks, on the screen, too much like a book. It's not a book - it's a bad first draft of something that could one day be a book. View quote
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Writing by hand is a way of letting mystery into my writing. But I'm constantly trying to figure out how to do this job. It's a work in progress. View quote
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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)
I'm feminist in that I believe that there should be equality between men and women. I get deeply frustrated on a daily basis by the enormous gender divide in the U.S. literary world. But I don't know how to deal with it, so I don't tend to say much about it. View quote
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We need the skeletons of other stories to understand our own, sometimes. View quote
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I see ghosts everywhere, and that is partially a function of my being incredibly near-sighted and reading way too late into the night. View quote
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As soon as you publish a book and the reader reads it, they're making an extension of your brain with their brain. View quote
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I think attempting to make art is a utopian process in itself, definitely. Nothing I do is ever equal to the ideas in my head. You do the best you can, you do it with patience and love, and then you give up. The moment you give up is when you know the book is done. View quote
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