There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“The shame that tormented me was all the more corrosive for having no very clear origin: I didn't know why I felt… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I'd always rather stand or fall on my own mistakes. There's nothing worse than looking back, in a published book, at a… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“it didn’t matter what the books said, what the experts said, what similar items at Christie’s had recently gone for. An object—any… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“It's commonplace to say that we 'love' a book, but when we say it, we mean all sorts of things. Sometimes we… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“They, too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape, centuries dead; they'd had the experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century… — donna tartt Copy Share Image
There's nothing like having a sympathetic reader who asks the right questions, who understands what you're trying to achieve and only wants… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad,… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The trouble is when people read about authors, they don't feel compelled to read the authors' work. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Why, I thought sadly, as he returned with his topcoat over his arm, why hadn’t my mother married someone like him—? Or… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
As I stood with her on the platform - she impatient, tapping her foot, leaning forward to look down the tracks -… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“You see one painting, I see another, the art book puts it at another remove still, the lady buying the greeting card… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“a light that made me think of long hours in dusty libraries, and old books, and silence.” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime? — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
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… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“A month or two before, I would have been appalled at the idea of any murder at all. But that Sunday afternoon, as I… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
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… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“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… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from all the world, that no one and… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“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… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“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… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
