Research is about following the gleam into the dark. It's also about being sensitive enough to know which fact is "the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders," as opposed to the fact that deadens and kills a delicate new project.
Lauren GroffI see ghosts everywhere, and that is partially a function of my being incredibly near-sighted and reading way too late into the night.
Lauren GroffI love writing from enclosed spaces: you really learn about your characters when they have tight walls to push against.
Lauren GroffWhen I write new worlds, I work in layers, building and throwing out, and building anew.
Lauren GroffI'm an anxious person in general, but something about being pregnant and awaiting the release of my first book, The Monsters Of Templeton, made me into an insane anxious person. I didn't sleep at night. I ended up sleeping all day. In a strange way I felt like the world was going to end. I found myself so deeply depressed at times that I started to read about happiness, and that took me into books about idealism and utopianism. Reading books about people who tried to build utopian societies of different kinds gave me a kind of lift.
Lauren Groff