9 Quotes by Lauren Groff about writing
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In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.
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He got drunk as usual, but instead of drifting to sleep, he stayed up, and at a white heat, wrote what had been sitting on his heart for decades.
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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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There was the other thing, the far worse thing. During the same time she began to write, she left him. He was wrapped up in his work. She came back and he never knew she was gone.
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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 seem too dark to look at directly.
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Fiction is always a utopian task, in that there's an ideal you hold in your head as you write which inevitably fails in the moment of creation, in the insufficiency of words to convey meaning, or in the way the work is completed in the reader's head.
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When I write new worlds, I work in layers, building and throwing out, and building anew.
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The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.
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It's wonderful that nothing you write is ever going to be as beautiful as what's in your head, because that gap is where the art can enter and begin to stretch its limbs.
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