Author: Donna Tartt

Quotes

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

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

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 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

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

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

- 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 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

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

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.

- Donna Tartt

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