I'm ambivalent about the Orange Prize. I was really proud to be shortlisted alongside the other writers, whom I admire. That said, I don't know if it's best way of addressing gender inequality problems.
I love Twitter. It's like having a closet full of clever friends that you can visit twice a day, then shove back into the darkness when you're tired … - Lauren Groff
I love Twitter. It's like having a closet full of clever friends that you can visit twice a day, then shove back into the darkness when you're tired …
- Lauren Groff
I'm a private person, a shy person. Sometimes, reading for eleven hours straight feels to me like the perfect way to spend a day. - Lauren Groff
I'm a private person, a shy person. Sometimes, reading for eleven hours straight feels to me like the perfect way to spend a day.
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… - Lauren Groff
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…
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… - 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…
Sometimes you have to let time carry you past your troubles. - Lauren Groff
Sometimes you have to let time carry you past your troubles.
The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves. - Lauren Groff
The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.
Sex is a good starting point for everything. - Lauren Groff
Sex is a good starting point for everything.
My childhood was as conventional as you could get. - Lauren Groff
My childhood was as conventional as you could get.
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 cor… - Lauren Groff
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 cor…
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