Author: Donna Tartt

Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

I really do work in solitude.

I really do work in solitude.

- 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

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