Quotes by Lauren Groff

Lauren Groff

A female writer does definitely get more attention if she writes about male characters. It’s true. It’s considered somehow more literary, in the same way that it’s more literary to write about supposedly male subjects, such as war. You’re considered more seriously by the literary establishment.

Character

War

Writing

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.

Dark

Order

Writing

Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving.

Amor

Cease

As a person, I do ascribe to a lot of magical thinking myself.

Magical Thinking

Persons

Thinking

As soon as you publish a book and the reader reads it, they’re making an extension of your brain with their brain.

Book

Brain

Publish

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.

Care

Ledges

Talking

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.

Hurt

Morning

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.

Depressing

Girl

Lunch

Even the presence of my kids cannot, during those writing hours, disturb me. Unless there’s a bone sticking out of their arm, I’m not interested.

Bones

Kids

Writing

Everything is cyclical. Historical eras go through times of intense cynicism, broken by periods of intense idealism.

Broken

Eras

Historical

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Amor

Art

Artist

Balance

Baseball

Beautiful

Believe

Bones

Book

Brain

Broken

Brother

Canvas

Care

Cease

Character

Childhood

Children

Clever

Community

Conventional

Creative

Dark

Darkness

Daughter

Depressing

Different

Dirty

Disappear

Enough

Eras

Eugenics

Failing

Fans

Feminist

Fiction

Fighting

Girl

Giving Up

Grace

Grandparent

Growing Up

Historical

Hours

Hurt

Jobs

Kids

Layers

Ledges

Lonely

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Quotes by Lauren Groff

Lauren Groff

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.

Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving.

As a person, I do ascribe to a lot of magical thinking myself.

As soon as you publish a book and the reader reads it, they’re making an extension of your brain with their brain.

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.

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.

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.

Even the presence of my kids cannot, during those writing hours, disturb me. Unless there’s a bone sticking out of their arm, I’m not interested.

Everything is cyclical. Historical eras go through times of intense cynicism, broken by periods of intense idealism.

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