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

Sometimes you have to let time carry you past your troubles.

- 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…

- Lauren Groff

The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.

- 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…

- Lauren Groff

Sex is a good starting point for everything.

- Lauren Groff

My childhood was as conventional as you could get.

- 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…

- Lauren Groff