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Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.

Donna Tartt

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Donna Tartt
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: December 23
Novelist
Writer
Greenwood
Mississippi
Donna Louise Tartt
Conquer
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Fool
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Doe
Everything
Love
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Whoever

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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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I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
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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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But how,” said Charles, who was close to tears, “how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?’ Henry lit a cigarette. “I prefer to think of it,” he had said, “as redistribution of matter.
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Even if you need, and want, a second opinion, it can be dangerous to have people telling you what they think you ought to add, or cut, before you've even finished telling your story. One loses heart one loses energy and interest. Or at least I do.
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On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business.
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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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Sometimes it's about playing a poor hand well.
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Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life
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Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.
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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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The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art of what I do lies not in research or even recollection but primarily in invention.
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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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Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.
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In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.
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Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.
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I really do work in solitude.
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Every new event—everything I did for the rest of my life—would only separate us more and more: days she was no longer a part of, an ever-growing distance between us. Every single day for the rest of my life, she would only be further away.
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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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