Radcliffe writer Lauren Groff: Failure can breed success
As any writer will tell you, the process of writing is riddled with anguish, angst, and the ever-popular procrastination. For the best-selling author Lauren Groff, it’s also filled with failure. Groff, the Suzanne Young Murray Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, spoke about her process, read from her current work, and told her listeners on Wednesday that the only way she succeeds with her writing is by failing multiple times. “Failure,” Groff assured her audience, “is your friend. “I know some of you have never heard this before and never failed at anything in your lives,” she said, “but when you are creating a work of art, or trying to create a work of art, what you want to do is fail, I think, because what happens is you come up against the boundaries of what you can and cannot do, the boundaries of what you understand and what you don’t...