Book Quotes by Donna Tartt

10 Book quotes by Donna Tartt

Donna Tartt’s meticulous prose is reflected in her reverence for books. These ten brief excerpts convey her view of reading as an immersive, almost ritualistic act.

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I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

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It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.

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As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.

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The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really…

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The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of…

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I'd always rather stand or fall on my own mistakes. There's nothing worse than looking back, in a published book, at a…

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Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have…

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The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad,…

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As I stood with her on the platform - she impatient, tapping her foot, leaning forward to look down the tracks -…

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“It's commonplace to say that we 'love' a book, but when we say it, we mean all sorts of things. Sometimes we…

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I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?

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And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them…

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And the flavor of Pippa's kiss--bittersweet and strange--stayed with me all the way back uptown, swaying and sleepy as I sailed home on the…

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“The world won't come to me...so I must go to it.”

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“A month or two before, I would have been appalled at the idea of any murder at all. But that Sunday afternoon, as I…

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Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

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Always remember, the person we’re really working for is the person who’s restoring the piece a hundred years from now. He’s the one we…

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“The silence between us was happy and strange, connected by the cord and the icy voices thinly echoing. “You don’t have to talk,” she…

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“It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from all the world, that no one and…

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“You didn’t meet many people who moved freely through the world with such a vigorous contempt for it and at the same time such…

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“maybe that’s what’s waiting for us at the end of the journey, a majesty unimaginable until the very moment we find ourselves walking through…

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