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Lauren Groff Quotes

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: July 23, 1978

Topics

Life History Better Create Desire

When you lay your life out there, you want it to be as true as possible.

Life You Want True Possible Out

I wake up at 10. I have coffee, and then I spend a half an hour on the computer, where I read newspapers and progressive blogs. I have to tear myself away, or I'll spend all day reading.

Andrew Sean Greer

Myself Coffee Day Wake Up Reading

I went to my first school dance on the set of 'Spider-Man.' The funny thing is, it wasn't actually real. I didn't choose my dress or my date or anything about it. I just showed up for work.

Work Funny Dance School Dress First

Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition.

Sumner Redstone

Competition Wall Too Much Street He

If I'm remembered for having done a few good things, and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.

Good Good Things Done Presence Here

People can be really mean - they say the most vicious things.

People Say Mean They Say Things

In a sense, by closing off the idea that young Muslims, and particularly young Muslim men, can be American heroes, it increases the chance that they'll try to be some other kind of hero. And that, I think, is entirely counterproductive.

Hero Men Chance Think American Kind

I mean, I suppose when I'm in London, I'm home so I'm more comfortable.

Home Comfortable London More Mean

I worked for a while as a teaching assistant while I was struggling. I really enjoyed it, working with kids with special needs, autism. It takes a hell of a lot of concentration, and you've got to focus on the child properly for seven hours a day.

Focus Day Child Hell You Special

I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3, 1996,' I'll say to someone.

Morning Winning February Someone You

If you can market smut and toilet paper, you can market movies.

You Movies Toilet Paper Market

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.

Yourself Think You Mad Know Gone

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