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Writing Quotes by Donna Tartt
- I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.
- I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.
- I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.
- It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.
- Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.
- 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…
- As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.
- I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.
- 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…
- The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the…
- It happened in New York, April 10th, nineteen years ago. Even my hand balks at the date. I had to push to write it down,…
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