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Author: Donna Tartt
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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.
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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.
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Donna Tartt
On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business.
On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business.
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Donna Tartt
Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.
Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.
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Donna Tartt
I really do work in solitude.
I really do work in solitude.
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Donna Tartt
My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time.
My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time.
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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.
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Donna Tartt
But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
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Donna Tartt
You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it.
You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it.
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Donna Tartt
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