Lauren Groff Quotes - Page 4

• 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

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• 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

  Mean, Parenthood, Failing

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• My son is actually named after Beck, the musician. We heard Beck on the radio and thought that was a good nickname for a child. We named our son Beckett so we could call him Beck - we reverse engineered. And then after he was born and I saw the name on the birth certificate I realized Beckett was a really pretentious name, way too literary. Luckily he's grown into it. We nearly named my second son Dashiell. Can you imagine? Beckett and Dashiell. It would have been a disaster of pretentiousness.

  Lauren Groff

  Children, Son, Musician

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• 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

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• El sexo tensa las cosas. Hay gente encantadora en Oneida, pero todo el mundo estaba casado con todo el mundo. Y había padres y madres que veían cómo sus hijas de doce años eran introducidas en el matrimonio colectivo por hombres de sesenta y cinco. Hay aspectos espeluznantes en muchas comunidades intencionales cuando se trata de sexo.

  Lauren Groff

  Hija, Madre, Padre

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• 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

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• The trouble is that America's become a utopia accessible only to some people. Others get trampled on. Perhaps it's a problem of size. Robin Dunbar, an anthropologist, once gave the ideal number of a given community as 148. That seems about right to me. There's something idealistic about that - in a group of 148 people you can get to know everybody.

  Lauren Groff

  People, Community, Problem

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• 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

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• When I write new worlds, I work in layers, building and throwing out, and building anew.

  Lauren Groff

  Writing, World, Layers

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

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• 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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• I won't walk under scaffolding or under ladders. I wear things like a baseball player wears things that are supposed to have luck. I am superstitious about everything.

  Lauren Groff

  Baseball, Player, Luck

  "Bit And Peace: Lauren Groff’s Arcadia". Interview with Clare Stein, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 8, 2012.

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• Me siento afortunada. Me encanta, sobre todo. En la universidad llevaba en el corazón que quería ser escritora, pero no quería contárselo a nadie. Luego me gradué y me hice camarero en Filadelfia, escribiendo durante el día. Era el peor camarero del mundo.

  Lauren Groff

  Escritura, Corazón, Universidad

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