Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving. Lauren Groff More Quotes by Lauren Groff More Quotes From Lauren Groff Even still, we run. We have not reached our average of 57.92 years without knowing that you run through it, and it hurts and you run through it some more, and if it hurts worse, you run through it even more, and when you finish, you will have broken through. In the end, when you are done, and stretching, and your heartbeat slows, and your sweat dries, if you've run through the hard part, you will remember no pain. Lauren Groff pain hurt running But I've married a deeply sensible person who is extremely good at talking me down from my various ledges, and who takes care of me in a billion ways. Lauren Groff ledges care talking 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 better-life intense desire As a person, I do ascribe to a lot of magical thinking myself. Lauren Groff magical-thinking persons thinking At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing. Lauren Groff simple writing happy-life In this moment that blooms and fades as it passes, he is enough, and all is well in the world. Lauren Groff moments enough world Song: Heloise and Abelard by Elizabeth Devlin. Beyond the a propros subject matter, this lady can really play the Autoharp. This song sounds like something you'd find on a gramophone record. Lauren Groff sound play song Depressing thought: my friends were the girls I ate lunch with, all buddies from kindergarten who knew one another so well we weren't sure if we even liked one another anymore. Lauren Groff depressing lunch girl 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 parenthood failing mean Reading about utopianism, and eventually creating characters with their own utopian ambitions, was the way I learned to live with being a pregnant person, to stave off the sense of incipient disaster. You're bringing a person into this overcrowded world, knowing they're one day going to die and there's nothing you can do about it. Lauren Groff reading ambition character 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 reading sleep book 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 publish brain book 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 important greek drama I'm a physical learner. I learn from writing drafts, not reading them. Lauren Groff reading writing 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 one-day writing book 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. Lauren Groff gender proud problem A female writer does definitely get more attention if she writes about male characters. It's true. It's considered somehow more literary, in the same way that it's more literary to write about supposedly male subjects, such as war. You're considered more seriously by the literary establishment. Lauren Groff writing character war I want to be identified as a writer, not a Southern writer, not a woman writer, not a woman from this or that place, but unfortunately it doesn't always happen. Lauren Groff southern The gender inequality in book reviewing isn't getting better. Male authors get the majority of review coverage, and male reviewers do most of the reviewing. It's kind of devastating. Lauren Groff get-better kind book I'm feminist in that I believe that there should be equality between men and women. I get deeply frustrated on a daily basis by the enormous gender divide in the U.S. literary world. But I don't know how to deal with it, so I don't tend to say much about it. Lauren Groff feminist men believe
