Time Quotes by Donna Tartt

“he said well if you can’t plan it out ahead of time, you’ll just have to work it out as you go…

— Donna Tartt

Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.

— Donna Tartt

“Nihil sub sole novum [...] Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.”

— Donna Tartt

“it would be a long, long time before I heard anything from Boris again.”

— Donna Tartt

Criticism at the wrong time, even if it's legitimate criticism, can be seriously damaging and make the writer lose faith in what…

— Donna Tartt

“Nihil sub sole novum, I thought as I walked back down the hall to my room. Any action, in the fullness of…

— Donna Tartt

“My heart - which, thrilled at my daring, had held its breath for a moment or two - began suddenly to beat…

— Donna Tartt

“Besides I think it's good to change the place where one sleeps from time to time. I believe it gives one more…

— Donna Tartt

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think…

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“But depression wasn’t the word. This was a plunge encompassing sorrow and revulsion far beyond the personal: a sick, drenching nausea at…

— Donna Tartt

“...it was reassuring to know that far away, whales swam untroubled in Baltic waters and monks in arcane time zones chanted ceaselessly…

— Donna Tartt

I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other.…

— Donna Tartt

“even when I couldn’t see it I liked knowing it was there for the depth and solidity it gave things, the reinforcement…

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“when what she needed was something concrete, some small final memory to slip its hand in hers and accompany her—sightless now, stumbling—through…

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“despite his faults, which were numerous and spectacular, the reason I’d liked Boris and felt happy around him from almost the moment…

— Donna Tartt

“I never took it out...though even when I couldn't see it I liked knowing it was there for the depth and solidity…

— Donna Tartt

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

— Donna Tartt

“[S]he came up suddenly beside me so I saw her reflection in a mirror. At the sight of her I was paralyzed…

— Donna Tartt

It's funny, but thinking back on it now, I realize that this particular point in time, as I stood there blinking in…

— Donna Tartt

“Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on…

— Donna Tartt

It is easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness, and I don’t…

— Donna Tartt

“To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what…

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“It was getting dark; soon it would be time for dinner. I finished my drink in a swallow. The idea of living…

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“It seemed my whole life was composed of these disjointed fractions of time, hanging around in one public place and then another,…

— Donna Tartt

“not that I’d even been thinking about Cinzia until the moment before, but it had all seemed so solid, so immutable, the…

— Donna Tartt

“I closed my eyes, overwhelmed with the wine, with her, with the impossibility of explaining it. “It's just—his last moments on earth,…

— Donna Tartt

“I wrote these letters in the mornings before work, in the library, during my sessions of prolonged loitering in Commons, where I…

— Donna Tartt

“But depression wasn't the word. This was a plunge encompassing sorrow and revulsion far beyond the personal: a sick, drenching nausea at…

— Donna Tartt

“Whatever teaches us to talk to ourselves is important: whatever teaches us to sing ourselves out of despair. But the painting has…

— Donna Tartt

“I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mother, with my…

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“Amsterdam, I dreamed about my mother for the first time in years. I’d been shut up in my hotel for more than…

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“But though it was the most resonant and real-seeming thing that had happened in a long time, I didn't want to spoil…

— Donna Tartt

Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I…

— Donna Tartt

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

— Donna Tartt

“Time, and repeated screenings, have endowed the memory with a menace the original did not possess. -The Secret History, pg. 260”

— Donna Tartt

“Yet my longing for her was like a bad cold that had hung on for years despite my conviction that I was…

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In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal…

— Donna Tartt

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

“And the painting, above his head, was the still point where it all hinged: dreams and signs, past and future, luck and…

— Donna Tartt

Are you happy here?" I said at last. He considered this for a moment. "Not particularly," he said. "But you're not very…

— Donna Tartt