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.

I seem to long for community and mistrust it in equal measure, and so I spend most of my days carefully constructing various communities in stories and seeing if they fly.

Marriage seems to be predicated on protecting a very deep and intimate form of mystery.

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.