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Donna Tartt
American Novelist
Born: Dec 23, 1963
Children Long Think Time Work Writing
Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life. Donna Tartt
Sad Life Truth Me Sad Truth Everything About Takes Longer Expect Than
Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality. Donna Tartt
You Reality Sometimes Lesson Right Things Succeed Hard Hard Lesson Right Things
When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain. Donna Tartt
Rain Writing Water Drop Way Detail Color Almost Leaf Concentrating Am Concrete Off Wet Rolls After Room Painted Wholly
Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction. Donna Tartt
Life Character Me Blood Fiction
I really do work in solitude. Donna Tartt
Work Solitude Really
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
Time You Lie Think Other Back Like Know Child Children Really
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
Time Consider Way Projects Range Writer Taking Well-Spent Command Technical Challenging Grows
Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device. Donna Tartt
Think Device Well Always Storytellers Fascinating Found
Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy. Donna Tartt
Love Club Secrecy Secret Houses Children Even Need
It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens. Donna Tartt
Work Me People Writing Will Other Because Comments Influence Happens While Hard Show
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
Work Time You Long Important Out Find Over Piece Period Deal Questions Very Trying Order Work Out Engage Novelist Extended
But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know. Donna Tartt
Life Vision Ugly Important About Lead Know Also Very Truths Romantic Certain Hard Away
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
Funny Experience Job Believe Funny Way Way Out Spoken Been Really Speaking Novelist
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
Time Together Long Single More Long Period Over Come Period Conceptual Unexpectedly Different Process Different Elements Spark Really Many Novels Elements
I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive. Donna Tartt
Love Alive Characters Minor Particular Most Tradition Dickens Where Even Twitching
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up. Donna Tartt
Job Invent Embellish Color Make Up Novelist Things
I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much. Donna Tartt
Work Writing Finished William Admire About Writer Very American Essay Maxwell Just Much Whose
Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel. Donna Tartt
Writing Long Big Enjoy Process Novel Actually
There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years. Donna Tartt
Made Expectation Every Other Consumer Dropping Days Like Couple Line Years Any Conveyor Should Product Production Novels Belt
The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story. Donna Tartt
Book Language Long First Approach Characters Also Friend Diction Different Different Approach Story Different Characters Little Landscape Use Novel
I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones. Donna Tartt
Good Book Ten Rather Write Than Good Book Mediocre
Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive. Donna Tartt
Time More Emotional Adult Observation Sharp Sharper Primitive Powers Reactions Very Than Same Same Time Children Much Murky
So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter. Donna Tartt
Matter Sense Took Faulkner Entire Writer Environment Term Like Subject Subject Matter South Southern Literary Commonly Held Who

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