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Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.
Donna Tartt
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Donna Tartt
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: December 23
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Greenwood
Mississippi
Donna Louise Tartt
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It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.
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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, just to keep the pen moving on the paper. It used to be a perfectly ordinary day, but now it sticks up on the calendar like a rusty nail.
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To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.
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I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
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I really do work in solitude.
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It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.
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But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illumined in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead.
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If I'm not working, I'm not happy. That's it. That's the prerequisite for me for happiness.
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But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
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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 hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.
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All those layers of silence upon silence.
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