#lauren groff

[quotespile]

It is a moral failure to miss the profound beauty of the world...

Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

[macrolit]

Grief is pain internalized, abscess of the soul. Anger is pain as energy, sudden explosion.

Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies

[litsnaps]

[novlr]

“In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.” ― Lauren Groff

[nobeerreviews]

Poetry is what he turns to these days, finding in its fragmentation the proper echo of the disintegrating world.

-- Lauren Groff

(Vatra Dornei, Romania)

[aseaofquotes]

Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies

[elwenyere]

"Literary prizes can give the impression that art is a competition. Take it from a ferociously competitive person: Art is anti-competitive. Art is a long, unending conversation between generations."

-- Lauren Groff

[brokehorrorfan]

A24 has released The Lighthouse screenplay book for $60. It’s the 11th installment in the studio’s series of 8x11 hardcover editions. An e-book version is also available for $20.

In addition to Robert & Max Eggers' original script, the 216-page tome includes an introduction by actor Willem Dafoe, essays by authors Lauren Groff (Fates and Furies) and Ian McGuire (The North Water), full-page stills, and excerpts from a 1881 lighthouse keeper’s guide.

[sweetfishes]

the second vision

[virgin-martyr]

She had once believed that in the deepest reaches of everything was a nothing where men had planted god; but now she knew that deeper within that nothing was something else, something made of light and heat. It was this light and heat that endured, that was everlasting. At the center was not nothing, no. Out of the light and the heat all goodness poured.

Lauren Groff, excerpt from The Vaster Wilds

[imaginarylands4000]

[quotespile]

How disappointing, when people succumb to what is expected of them.

Lauren Groff, Arcadia

[heavenlyyshecomes]

[…] she wrote of physical anguish and ecstasy, of troublesome dreams and shimmering, transfiguring light.

—Lauren Groff, introduction to ‘Woman Running in The Mountains’ by Yuko Tsushima, tr. Geraldine Harcourt

[litsnaps]

[preraphaelitebeauty]

I enjoyed this article but I felt like the author was so set on the theme of spiritually that she ended up not really listening to Florence.

Edit: So based off this message Florence knew ahead of time that the divine was an important theme of Groff's work. It makes sense that Groff would want to have a theme what connects her work to Florence's. I appreciate that Groff respect Florence's boundaries and did not try to press her into elaborating on her beliefs.

[neoyorzapoteca]

(...) if you’re working in the arts, you have to build a second self. And the second self is the one that is okay with the criticism. There’s the artist, who is as vulnerable as a slug. And you have to keep the artist that vulnerable in order to make the art. And then there is the person who’s public facing, and that person is very different. That person has to be tough, tough, tough.

Lauren Groff on her novel ‘Matrix’ - OPB