Literary Birthday – 23 July – Lauren Groff
Happy Birthday, Lauren Groff, born on 23 July 1978.
Lauren Groff Quotes
- In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.
- 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 force of a revelation when you’re older.
- 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.
- 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 corporeal life was slight. The dazzling one in my head was what really mattered. Returning to books was coming home.
- But I can say that if you’re a writer who happens to be a woman, you’ll get a book cover that depicts a woman with no head, or a woman turning away, or a pair of high heels. You have to fight to not get stuck with these covers. In the U.S. women are chick-lit writers unless they prove otherwise, and that’s frustrating.
- They can wound, stories, they can blister.
Lauren Groff is an American novelist and short story writer. Groff has written The New York Times bestselling novels The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Fates and Furies, Matrix, and The Vaster Wilds. Her latest book is a short story collection: Brawler. In 2018, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction. She has won The Story Prize, the ABA Indies’ Choice Award, France’s Grand Prix de l’Héroïne, and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and has been a finalist three times for the National Book Award. She was named one of the 100 most influential people by Time in 2024. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, where she and her husband own the independent bookstore The Lynx. Follow her on Pinterest.
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