Lauren Groff Quotes - Page 4

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• As with most of my work, I started from the abstract, from research, building an intellectual model that slowly became internalized when the characters came alive. It's fascinating what happens to the model you've so assiduously assembled when characters are allowed to run rampant: things you thought essential are broken and other things are vastly improved.

  Lauren Groff

  Running, Character, Broken

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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• Being a writer means I sit in a dark (and pretty dank) room off my garage for many hours a day, and in my wallowing moments I can feel as if I'm already on the outside of society, peering wistfully in.

  Lauren Groff

  Mean, Dark, Rooms

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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• Plays are just all sort of playful asides, and there's a great deal of reference here to Greek mythology, plays, and dramas. The idea of the chorus is really important in Greek drama and I loved the idea of including that.

  Lauren Groff

  Drama, Greek, Important

  Source: therumpus.net

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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.

  Lauren Groff

  Book, Brain, Publish

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm an anxious person in general, but something about being pregnant and awaiting the release of my first book, The Monsters Of Templeton, made me into an insane anxious person. I didn't sleep at night. I ended up sleeping all day. In a strange way I felt like the world was going to end. I found myself so deeply depressed at times that I started to read about happiness, and that took me into books about idealism and utopianism. Reading books about people who tried to build utopian societies of different kinds gave me a kind of lift.

  Lauren Groff

  Book, Reading, Sleep

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• Parenthood means becoming comfortable with the fact that there are things outside your control, things that end and fail, just as most utopias end and by some measure fail. And just because they're a failure doesn't mean there isn't value there.

  Lauren Groff

  Mean, Parenthood, Failing

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• When I meet people I try to make a joke out of my occupation, explaining that what I do all day is sit alone in a darkened room, flicking through some pages, jumping on a treadmill now and then. I keep my serious work as a writer private, but that doesn't mean it's not serious work - quite the opposite.

  Lauren Groff

  Mean, People, Trying

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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.

  Lauren Groff

  Art, Giving Up, Book

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• I'm kind of a control freak. But there are others like me.

  Lauren Groff

  Freak, Kind, Control Freak

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• In my totally unscientific yet enthusiastic survey of Communal Experiments Throughout American History, I've discovered that the thing most likely to break up said experiments is: Sex, all that murky, dark, dirty gunk simmering beneath human relations.

  Lauren Groff

  Sex, Dirty, Dark

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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• The trouble is that America's become a utopia accessible only to some people. Others get trampled on. Perhaps it's a problem of size. Robin Dunbar, an anthropologist, once gave the ideal number of a given community as 148. That seems about right to me. There's something idealistic about that - in a group of 148 people you can get to know everybody.

  Lauren Groff

  People, Community, Problem

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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.

  Lauren Groff

  Book, Writing, One Day

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