Our human impulse is to control everything, but fiction seems to me to be about allowing an element of mystery into the text. Lauren Groff More Quotes by Lauren Groff More Quotes From Lauren Groff Total intimacy is a myth; that said, a particular kind of loneliness can be both beautiful and fruitful. Lauren Groff myth loneliness said beautiful My childhood was as conventional as you could get. I think I probably created 'Arcadia' with a certain amount of wishful thinking. I would have loved to have more looseness and freedom and community. Lauren Groff you childhood freedom community 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. You know how in New York there's a lot of scaffolding? I won't walk under scaffolding or under ladders. I wear things like a baseball player wears things that are supposed to have luck. Lauren Groff walk you black path
