This afternoon at the grocery store when the cashier asked for my license (wine), I gave it to her, and she laughed, and when I asked her why, and she said it was because her grandmother was also born in the 1970s.
Lauren Groff
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Lauren Groff
@legroff
Three-time National Book Award finalist for MATRIX, FLORIDA, and FATES AND FURIES. Winner of the Story Prize and the JCO Prize. She/her.
- Still thinking about the ladies next to me, strangers to each other, who talked nonstop on my flight from Atlanta to Seattle. Five hours. Serious therapy vibes. Then at the end, they just said “Great to meet you,” AND LEFT WITHOUT EXCHANGING INFORMATION.
- Late last night, I passed my teenager in the dark hallway and he reached out, tenderly touched my eyebrow, and whispered, “Overplucked in the ‘90s.” I’m dead now.
- I don't know who needs to hear this today (I do), but the vast majority of the time one spends writing a book isn't spent in writing the book, but rather reading, dreaming, running, walking, experimenting, restarting, writing things that gradually bring you closer to the book.
- After four days in Montreal, I’m wondering why the hell we don’t all live in Montreal.
- Replying to @legroffIf I find you so compelling that I’m going to talk to you for five hours straight, you better be ready to give a eulogy at my funeral one day.
- My boys’ critique of The Lion King was SCATHING because “lionesses, actually, are the hunters, and animals don’t need to accept lion royalty because they can rule themselves,” and, lordy, I have raised feminist anarchists, my work as a mother is pretty much done.
- Save me your hot takes about how Florida sucks, and remember that we’ve been gerrymandered so excessively out of actual democratic representation that what the GOP has done here to solidify their power should be considered unconstitutional.
- I wrote hundreds of thousands of words this year, threw out nearly all of them, and barely published anything. It’s fine! It happens often. These bleak, dry, fallow years are necessary for the good work to begin to take shape in the periphery.
- When I told my little boy to have a good day at school, he said, “Have a good day taking baths and crying and watching Italian movies,” HELP, where’s the aloe vera, I am never getting over that burn.
- There are some years when I sit down to write every day and I create almost nothing that’s worthy of being published. It has taken me almost 20 years of a life in art to understand that this is not only fine, it’s necessary.
- Mesmerized by the guy in front of me on the plane who spent two hours scrolling through Facebook, slowly and thoroughly enlarging the faces of his friends’ hot wives.
