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Lauren Groff
Lauren Groff
American Novelist
Born: Jul 23, 1978
Life Love Me Think Time You
Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
I once spent an entire night in a hotel in New York looking across the way into someone's apartment where nothing was happening but daily life, a phone call, television watching, staring into the fridge. Seeing how those strangers lived over that small distance and in absolute silence moved me deeply. Lauren Groff
Life Daily Me Silence Phone Looking Nothing Strangers Distance Once Way Spent Phone Call Those Television Seeing Entire Someone Small Absolute Hotel Over New Call How Fridge York Moved New York Where Happening Apartment Across Lived Daily Life Staring Deeply Watching Night
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
Death War Best Sometimes Seen Corner Tremendous Immense Eye Only Written Lightness Like Aging Things
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
Good Me Care Down Extremely Ways Married Various Takes Talking Person Sensible Sensible Person Billion Who Deeply
Bigger stories are made out of longer acquaintance with fact and character, but I also love the tiny stories in which almost everything has to be inferred and imagined. Lauren Groff
Love Character Made Everything Out Fact Almost Almost Everything Longer Also Tiny Stories Bigger Which Acquaintance Imagined
As a person, I do ascribe to a lot of magical thinking myself. Lauren Groff
Myself Thinking Magical Lot Person Ascribe
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
Life History Better See Better Life Outside Idealism Terms Norms Intense Create Really Cyclical Societal Desire
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
Life Myself You Sometimes Miserable Longing Think Booze Must Find Some More Thrilling Fireworks Read Bloody Artist Much Fights Actively Biography
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
Failure Out Kind Inured More Throw Fail Feel Because Been Times Than Get Any Fiction Succeed Pages Many Rejected
I am a person beset with fears, and one of my fears is that this thing that I will be writing for five years won't work. And the likelihood, of course, is that it won't - and that's fine. Lauren Groff
Work Writing Will Fears Fine Likelihood Course Am Years Five Person Thing
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
Love Time Beginning Think Too Horizontal Having Idea Lot Vertical End Texts Being Stories Story Little
A lot of books about marriage are about marriages falling apart. Lauren Groff
Marriage Books Marriages About Falling Lot Apart
There aren't very many good models of feminine rage - and the ones that we remember are ones where women take that anger internally and implode themselves in a real way, like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary. Lauren Groff
Good Anger Women Remember Rage Way Take Anna Like Feminine Real Very Models Where Themselves Many
My childhood was as conventional as you could get. I think I probably created 'Arcadia' with a certain amount of wishful thinking. I would have loved to have more looseness and freedom and community. Lauren Groff
Freedom You Community Think Thinking Would More Could Wishful Wishful Thinking Get Childhood Conventional Loved Created Certain Amount
I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms. In America, possibly because of whatever the American dream is, this happens over and over again. These eras repeat. Lauren Groff
Life History Better Whatever Possibly Dream See Better Life Outside Idealism Over Terms Because Eras Repeat Norms America American Intense American Dream Happens Again Create Really Cyclical Societal Desire
Among so many things, 'Time Passes' has shown me subversive ways of portraying time, of looking away from the human to the far more terrifying, far more immense texture of time beneath the minute span of a human life. Lauren Groff
Life Time Me Looking Beneath Ways Immense Minute More Terrifying Passes Time Passes Texture Human Span Subversive Far Human Life Many Shown Away Among Things Portraying
At some point, I picked up an old library copy of 'To The Lighthouse' someone had bought for 25 cents. I began to read and didn't stop until the sun had blistered my back. A mysterious rightness, a beautiful submerged truth had invaded me, one that has ever since seemed slightly beyond my grasp. Lauren Groff
Beautiful Truth Me Library Old Back Slightly Sun Some Invaded Seemed Someone Point Mysterious Had Picked Bought Lighthouse Since Beyond Until Read Began Up Submerged Stop Cents Grasp Ever Copy

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