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Donna Tartt
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: December 23
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Donna Louise Tartt
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Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.
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Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she'd wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was a certain lonely comfort in the fact that she'd known it was impossible and had gone ahead and done it anyway.
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One likes to think there's something in it, that old platitude amor vincit omnia. But if I've learned one thing in my short sad life, it is that that particular platitude is a lie. Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.
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Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life
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When I looked at the painting I felt the same convergence on a single point: a flickering sun-struck instance that existed now and forever. Only occasionally did I notice the chain on the finch's ankle, or think what a cruel life for a little living creature - fluttering briefly, forced always to land in the same hopeless place.
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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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Does such a thing as the fatal flaw, that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?
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For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.
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Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.
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Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.
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Sometimes it's about playing a poor hand well.
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Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction
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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 period of time.
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I really do work in solitude.
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Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.
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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, different approach to story.
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I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.
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I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.
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It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.
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