Best Donna Tartt Quotes
- Beauty alters the grain of reality, Alters
- I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there. Adult
- On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to… Been
- As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that. Book
- The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they… Aquariums
- You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight… Accumulate
- Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of… Aunt
- They were playing old Bob Dylan, more than perfect for narrow Village streets close to Christmas and the snow whirling down in big feathery flakes,… Arm
- No money, holes in my socks, living off oatmeal. Holes
- The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as if a city… Air
- After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great All
- Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool. Conquer
- It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially. Better
- Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much… Adult
- I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much. Admire
- I really do work in solitude. Funny
- Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device. Always Found
- The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction,… Approach
- There's a big anti-intellectual strain in the American south, and there always has been. We're not big on thought. America
- And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun… Across
- Clearly something had gone wrong, badly, only I wasn't quite sure what—apart from knowing that I was responsible somehow, in the generalized miasma of shame… Apart
- The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking… Gift
- My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long… Come Together
- When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off… Almost Wholly
- If I had grown up in that house I couldn't have loved it more, couldn't have been more familiar with the creak of the swing,… Been
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