“Struggle forms character. No struggle, no character.” CharacterStrugglele Book:Fates and Furies Source: Fates and Furies
“As with most of my work, I started from the abstract, from research, building an intellectual model that slowly became internalized when the characters came alive. It's fascinating what happens to the model you've so assiduously assembled when characters are allowed to run rampant: things you thought essential are broken and other things are vastly improved.” CharacterHappensRunningAliveBuildingBrokenEssentialsIntellectualModelsResearchAbstractFascinating Author:Lauren Groff
“I love writing from enclosed spaces: you really learn about your characters when they have tight walls to push against.” WritingCharacterSpaceWall Author:Lauren Groff
“While writing, writers are living inside a character or characters, and when the book ekes into the world, writers are living inside the reader. That's more than connecting.” WorldWritingBookCharacterReaderConnecting Author:Lauren Groff
“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.” WorldCharacterReadingOne DayAmbitionDisasterPregnantUtopian Author:Lauren Groff
“A female writer does definitely get more attention if she writes about male characters. It's true. It's considered somehow more literary, in the same way that it's more literary to write about supposedly male subjects, such as war. You're considered more seriously by the literary establishment.” WritingWarCharacterAttentionFemale Author:Lauren Groff
“I think I'm an optimistic person. Ultimately I believe in people. I believe they can be robust. When my collection Delicate Edible Birds came out there were one or two people who read the title as being a commentary on the characters within the pages, the women in the book, meaning that they were these fragile girls meant for male consumption. But I had meant the opposite - these people are tough. Dark things happen to them but they get on with life as best they can.” PeopleThinkingBelieveBookCharacterGirlI BelieveDarkBirdToughThings HappenOptimisticDelicate Author:Lauren Groff
