Lauren Groff

Time is the currency - the highest valued currency we have now. And people giving you their time is so incredible. They don't have to like your book, either. That's a totally separate gift.

At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing.

If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.

U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next.