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.

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.