Donna Tartt Quotes
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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 are more inside me now than out.
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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 and listening and reading and practice - by work.
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Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.
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I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.
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I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.
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I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.
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Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.
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I really do work in solitude.
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The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.
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Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time.
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So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter.
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Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.