People Quotes by Donna Tartt

10 People quotes by Donna Tartt

Donna Tartt’s narrative depth is distilled into ten concise observations. She captures the hidden currents that drive individuals, making each snippet feel like a miniature character study.

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It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.

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The trouble is when people read about authors, they don't feel compelled to read the authors' work.

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I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for…

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There is to me about this place a smell of rot, the smell of rot that ripe fruit makes. Nowhere, ever, 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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A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t…

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Even if you need, and want, a second opinion, it can be dangerous to have people telling you what they think you…

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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…

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I hate Gucci,' said Francis. 'Do you?' said Henry, glancing up from his reverie. 'Really? I think it's rather grand.' 'Come on,…

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We looked at each other. And it occurred to me that despite his faults, which were numerous and spectacular, the reason I’d…

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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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