Lauren Groff famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.
-- Lauren Groff

#Lying #Writing #Fiction
When I was small and easily wounded books were my carapace. If I were recalled to my hurts in the middle of a book they somehow mattered less. My corporeal life was slight the dazzling one in my head was what really mattered. Returning to books was coming home.
-- Lauren Groff

#Hurt #Book #Home
If the literary category of 'mordant fable' exists at all, it may be because Brock Clarke invented it. The Happiest People in the World is everything we fans have come to love from a Clarke novel: playful and deliriously skewed, and somehow balancing between genuinely great-hearted and gloriously weird.
-- Lauren Groff

#People #Fans #World
She would always feel this wild girl was the truest of any of the people she had already been: adored daughter, bourgeois priss, rebel, runaway, dope-fiend San Francisco hippie; or all the people she would later be: mother, nurse, religious fanatic, prematurely old woman. Vivienne was a human onion, and when I came home at twenty eight years old on the day the monster died, I was afraid that the Baptist freak she had peeled down to was her true, acrid, tear-inducing core.
-- Lauren Groff

#Girl #Daughter #Mother
Who, in the midst of passion, is vigilant against illness? Who listens to the reports of recently decimated populations in Spain, India, Bora Bora, when new lips, tongues and poems fill the world?
-- Lauren Groff

#Passion #India #Spain
At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing.
-- Lauren Groff

#Writing #Happy Life #Simple
As a person, I do ascribe to a lot of magical thinking myself.
-- Lauren Groff

#Thinking #Persons #Magical Thinking
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

#Desire #Intense #Better Life
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

#Talking #Ledges #Care
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.
-- Lauren Groff

#Book #School #People
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.
-- Lauren Groff

#Fighting #Artist #Thinking
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.
-- Lauren Groff

#Jobs #Grace #Balance
In this moment that blooms and fades as it passes, he is enough, and all is well in the world.
-- Lauren Groff

#World #Moments #Enough
Song: Heloise and Abelard by Elizabeth Devlin. Beyond the a propros subject matter, this lady can really play the Autoharp. This song sounds like something you'd find on a gramophone record.
-- Lauren Groff

#Song #Play #Sound
Even still, we run. We have not reached our average of 57.92 years without knowing that you run through it, and it hurts and you run through it some more, and if it hurts worse, you run through it even more, and when you finish, you will have broken through. In the end, when you are done, and stretching, and your heartbeat slows, and your sweat dries, if you've run through the hard part, you will remember no pain.
-- Lauren Groff

#Running #Hurt #Pain
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.
-- Lauren Groff

#Girl #Depressing #Lunch
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.
-- Lauren Groff

#Daughter #Mother #Hurt
Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving.
-- Lauren Groff

#Amor
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.
-- Lauren Groff

#Hurt #Morning #Pain
Freedom or community, community or freedom. One must decide the way one wants to live. I chose community.
-- Lauren Groff

#Community #Want #Way
Sometimes you have to let time carry you past your troubles.
-- Lauren Groff

#Past #Sometimes #Trouble
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.
-- Lauren Groff

#Summer #Son #Sea
My childhood was as conventional as you could get.
-- Lauren Groff

#Childhood
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.
-- Lauren Groff

#Cat #Black #Way

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