Our human impulse is to control everything, but fiction seems to me to be about allowing an element of mystery into the text.
Lauren GroffWhile 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.
Lauren GroffI've always relied on producing more material than I need. With each of my published novels I've written around four times the amount of material that's ended up in the book.
Lauren Groff