Author: Donna Tartt

Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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