287 Quotes by Lauren Groff

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    In terms of writing, I think what most fiction writers treasure more than anything is the feeling that they’re living for the length of a book inside another person.

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    Stubborn heart,′ I said. ‘Long memory. Bad mix.

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    A mother’s job is to prop open all possible doors for her children.

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    Mathilde saw her own face reflected in the window, but no, it was a barn owl on a low branch in the cherry trees. She could barely master herself. She had never expected this. These women, such kindness, their eyes shining in the dim room. They saw her. She didn’t know why, but they saw her, and they loved her even still.

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    Research is about following the gleam into the dark. It’s also about being sensitive enough to know which fact is “the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders,” as opposed to the fact that deadens and kills a delicate new project.

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    Whether the weather be cold, whether the weather be hot, we’ll be together whatever the weather whether we like it or not.

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    She’s a novelist, which is tantamount to being a one woman card catalogue for useless knowledge.

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