Lauren Groff Quotes About Books

• Cuando era pequeño y me hería con facilidad, los libros eran mi caparazón. Si me recordaban mis heridas en medio de un libro, de alguna manera importaban menos. Mi vida corpórea era leve la deslumbrante de mi cabeza era lo que realmente importaba. Volver a los libros era volver a casa.

  Lauren Groff

  Hurt, Book, Home

  Lauren Groff (2008). "Los monstruos de Templeton", p.100, Hachette UK

• 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

  Libro, Lectura, Sueño

• I like people, I really do. I like meeting people. But most of the time I would rather be at home reading a book than reading in a bookstore. It's a performance, and it ends up being all right, and then you have a nice shot of bourbon afterwards, and it's all good. I want to please people. I want to be nice. I want to be liked. As a result I say yes to everything. But it takes a lot of vital energy out of me.

  Lauren Groff

  Niza, Libro, Lectura

• I think attempting to make art is a utopian process in itself, definitely. Nothing I do is ever equal to the ideas in my head. You do the best you can, you do it with patience and love, and then you give up. The moment you give up is when you know the book is done.

  Lauren Groff

  Art, Giving Up, Book

• Creo que soy una persona optimista. En última instancia, creo en las personas. Creo que pueden ser robustas. Cuando salió mi colección Delicate Edible Birds, hubo una o dos personas que leyeron el título como un comentario sobre los personajes de las páginas, las mujeres del libro, en el sentido de que eran esas chicas frágiles destinadas al consumo masculino. Pero yo quería decir lo contrario: estas personas son duras. Les ocurren cosas oscuras, pero siguen adelante lo mejor que pueden.

  Lauren Groff

  Chica, Creer, Libro

• I've always relied on producing more material than I need. With each of my published novels I've written around four times the amount of material that's ended up in the book.

  Lauren Groff

  Book, Novel

• 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

  Book, Writing, One Day

• Tengo la sensación de que los libros son como las personas: cambian con la edad, de modo que algunos libros que odiabas en el instituto te golpearán con la fuerza de una revelación cuando seas mayor.

  Lauren Groff

  Libro, Escuela, Gente

• Creo que en la ficción estadounidense estamos saliendo de un periodo de intensa ironía, y eso me alegra mucho. Creo que la ironía está bien por sí misma, pero no debería ser la única razón para escribir un libro. Ha sido una visión irónica del mundo: es la mejor manera en que puedo describirlo. Me gusta la seriedad. Siento que hay una nueva ola de seriedad y me alegraría ser una pequeña parte de ella.

  Lauren Groff

  Book, Moving, Writing

• 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.

  Lauren Groff

  Libro, Escritura, Pensamiento

  Entrevista con Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. 24 de agosto de 2012.

• I don't believe that fiction is dead. I know there are some people who believe that it's an outdated art form, and that to express truth today you need to work in different forms, to write books where it's perhaps not clear what's fiction and what's memoir. I have nothing against those books and love many of them very much. But we have enough space for everyone, traditional realists and hybrid writers, and experimental writers all.

  Lauren Groff

  Arte, Creer, Libro

• Mientras escriben, los escritores viven dentro de un personaje o personajes, y cuando el libro sale al mundo, los escritores viven dentro del lector. Eso es más que conectar.

  Lauren Groff

  Libro, Escritura, Personaje

  Entrevista con Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. 24 de agosto de 2012.

• 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

  Book, Get Better, Kind

• 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

  Book, Brain, Publish

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• 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.

  Lauren Groff

  Book, Fighting, Stuck

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