Author: Lauren Groff

Quotes

Marriage seems to be predicated on protecting a very deep and intimate form of mystery.

Marriage seems to be predicated on protecting a very deep and intimate form of mystery.

- Lauren Groff

I feel as if I've been so inured to failure, because I fail more than I succeed. As with any kind of fiction, I throw out so many pages; I get rejected so many times.

I feel as if I've been so inured to failure, because I fail more than I succeed. As with any kind of fiction, I throw out so many pages; I get rejected so many times.

- Lauren Groff

A lot of books about marriage are about marriages falling apart.

A lot of books about marriage are about marriages falling apart.

- Lauren Groff

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.

- Lauren Groff

Sometimes immense things, like war and death and aging, are best seen from the corner of the eye and written of only obliquely, with tremendous lightness.

Sometimes immense things, like war and death and aging, are best seen from the corner of the eye and written of only obliquely, with tremendous lightness.

- Lauren Groff

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.

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

At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing.

At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing.

- Lauren Groff

We think of stories a lot of the time as being horizontal texts, beginning to end. But I love the idea of having little vertical spikes in the story, too.

We think of stories a lot of the time as being horizontal texts, beginning to end. But I love the idea of having little vertical spikes in the story, too.

- Lauren Groff

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