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title: "10 Novel Quotes By Donna Tartt"
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> [Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/actually-i-enjoy-the-process-of-writing-a-big-long-novel/)

[Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/)

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> [I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/i-ve-written-only-two-novels-but-they-re-both-long-ones-and-they-each/)

[Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/)

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> [You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/you-are-all-your-experience-just-kind-of-accumulates-and-the-novel/)

[Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec1/donna-tartt-391_books_you-are-all-your-experience-just-kind-of_528020.jpg)

> [There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/there-s-an-expectation-these-days-that-novels-like-any-other-consumer/)

[Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f7/donna-tartt-391_belts_there-s-an-expectation-these-days-that-n_35151.jpg)

> [The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/the-little-friend-is-a-long-book-it-s-also-completely-different-from/)

[Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/476/donna-tartt-391_approach_the-little-friend-is-a-long-book-it-s-al_1228382.jpg)

> [My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/my-novels-aren-t-really-generated-by-a-single-conceptual-spark-it-s/)

[Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ef/donna-tartt-391_books_my-novels-aren-t-really-generated-by-a-s_2563342.jpg)

> [The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/the-novel-is-about-five-students-of-classics-who-are-studying-with-a/)

[Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb6/donna-tartt-391_books_the-novel-is-about-five-students-of-clas_3003420.jpg)

> [I think it's especially important for an editor to say what he's enjoying. For a novelist to be told, midstream, what he's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/i-think-it-s-especially-important-for-an-editor-to-say-what-he-s/)

[Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/772/donna-tartt-391_conclusion_i-think-it-s-especially-important-for-an_2693356.jpg)

> [I'd been assured, at age 21 or so, by a well-known editor who saw the first part of The Secret History in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/i-d-been-assured-at-age-21-or-so-by-a-well-known-editor-who-saw-the/)

[Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/811/donna-tartt-391_age_i-d-been-assured-at-age-21-or-so-by-a-we_1642860.jpg)

> [“I think politics is deadly to write about, frankly. If you have a political agenda and you set out to write a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/i-think-politics-is-deadly-to-write-about-frankly-if-you-have-a/)

[Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed9/donna-tartt-391_novel_i-think-politics-is-deadly-to-write-abou_669847.jpg)

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## More by Donna Tartt

> [I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/i-hope-we-re-all-ready-to-leave-the-phenomenal-world-and-enter-into/)

[Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/)

> [And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/and-i-add-my-own-love-to-the-history-of-people-who-have-loved/)

[Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/and-the-flavor-of-pippa-s-kiss-bittersweet-and-strange-stayed-with-me/)

[Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/)

> [“The world won't come to me...so I must go to it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/the-world-won-t-come-to-me-so-i-must-go-to-it/)

[Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/)

> [There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/there-s-an-expectation-these-days-that-novels-like-any-other-consumer/)

[Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/)

> [“A month or two before, I would have been appalled at the idea of any murder at all. But that Sunday afternoon, as I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/a-month-or-two-before-i-would-have-been-appalled-at-the-idea-of-any/)

[Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/)

> [Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/well-i-think-storytellers-have-always-found-murder-a-fascinating/)

[Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/always-remember-the-person-we-re-really-working-for-is-the-person-who/)

[Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/the-silence-between-us-was-happy-and-strange-connected-by-the-cord/)

[Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/)

> [“It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from all the world, that no one and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/it-is-a-terrible-thing-to-learn-as-a-child-that-one-is-a-being/)

[Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/you-didn-t-meet-many-people-who-moved-freely-through-the-world-with/)

[Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/maybe-that-s-what-s-waiting-for-us-at-the-end-of-the-journey-a/)

[Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/)

> [“lights and moods and seasons was to see it a thousand different ways and to keep it shut in the dark—a thing made of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/lights-and-moods-and-seasons-was-to-see-it-a-thousand-different-ways/)

[Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/)

> [A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/a-great-sorrow-and-one-that-i-am-only-beginning-to-understand-we-don/)

[Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/)

> [“Upon meeting Julian Morrow, one has the impression that he is a man of extraordinary sympathy and warmth. But what you call his 'Asiatic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/upon-meeting-julian-morrow-one-has-the-impression-that-he-is-a-man-of/)

[Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/)

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