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Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life

Donna Tartt

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Donna Tartt
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: December 23
Novelist
Writer
Greenwood
Mississippi
Donna Louise Tartt
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Longer
Takes
Truth
Everything
Life

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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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I really do work in solitude.
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Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction
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There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.
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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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A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.
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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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I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?
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I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle.
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In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.
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After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great
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...as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.
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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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And as we leave Donne and Walton on the shores of Metahemeralism, we wave a fond farewell to those famous chums of yore.
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I'd been assured, at age 21 or so, by a well-known editor who saw the first part of The Secret History in what was basically its final form, that it would never be published because no woman has ever written a successful novel from a male point of view.
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Sometimes it's about playing a poor hand well.
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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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For me - showing a half-finished manuscript is tricky. Just as a bird will get spooked and abandon her eggs if some outside party comes around and makes too much noise or pokes around the nest too intrusively - well, that's what it's like for me if I show work too early and I get a lot of editorial suggestions at the wrong time.
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Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.
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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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