Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device. — 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
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
To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I'd been assured, at age 21 or so, by a well-known editor who saw the first part of The Secret History in… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
For me - showing a half-finished manuscript is tricky. Just as a bird will get spooked and abandon her eggs if some… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Shakespearean words, foreign words, slang and dialect and made-up phrases from kids on the street corner: English has room for them all.… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I hate Gucci,' said Francis. 'Do you?' said Henry, glancing up from his reverie. 'Really? I think it's rather grand.' 'Come on,… — 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
