Author: Donna Tartt

Quotes

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

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

Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.

Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.

- Donna Tartt

In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.

In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.

- Donna Tartt

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

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.

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

- Donna Tartt

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