Books Quote by Donna Tartt

Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?

— Donna Tartt

“I extract significance from melodrama, a significance which it does not in fact contain; but occasionally, from out of this matter, there escapes a…

— Tom Stoppard

I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious…

— China Mieville

The story depicts also the troubled part of the hero's life which precedes and leads up to his death; and an instantaneous death occurring…

— A. C. Bradley

“The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for…

— Carl Sagan

The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.

— John Updike

“There is romantic nonsense these days about the beauty of death, about the terrible end becoming the lovely beginning, and I think that’s wrong,…

— Rick Bass

“ReVision   The failure I saw myself grew darker and darker as the halfway halves halfway blended   And somewhere there exists a world…

— Kenyatta Jean-Paul Garcia

As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human…

— Roberto Bolano

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

— Anonymous

I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with…

— Stanley Kubrick

There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies.…

— Martin McDonagh