Author: Donna Tartt

Quotes

It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.

It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.

- Donna Tartt

I really do work in solitude.

I really do work in solitude.

- Donna Tartt

Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.

Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.

- Donna Tartt

I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.

I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.

- Donna Tartt

Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time.

Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time.

- Donna Tartt

Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent.

Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent.

- Donna Tartt

I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.

I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.

- Donna Tartt

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.

- Donna Tartt

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.

- Donna Tartt

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