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 Read Quote
At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing. Lauren Groff Read Quote
If there’s 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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I love that he’s both comic and tragic, and highly poetic but also just dirty at times. … I love that within the world of Shakespeare’s plays, the whole world is sort of encompassed in a certain way. Lauren Groff Read Quote
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 Read Quote
