In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn't be any other way. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Who was it said that coincidence was just God’s way of remaining anonymous? — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
If he had his wits about him Bunny would surely keep his mouth shut; but now, with his subconscious mind knocked loose… — 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… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
She closed her eyes, dark-lidded, dark shadows beneath them; she really was older, not the glancing-eyed girl I had fallen in love… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
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… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime? — Donna Tartt Copy Share
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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… — Donna Tartt Copy Share
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… — Donna Tartt Copy Share
“Upon meeting Julian Morrow, one has the impression that he is a man of extraordinary sympathy and warmth. But what you call his 'Asiatic… — Donna Tartt Copy Share
