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I really do work in solitude.

Donna Tartt

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Donna Tartt
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: December 23
Novelist
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Greenwood
Mississippi
Donna Louise Tartt
Really
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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Criticism at the wrong time, even if it's legitimate criticism, can be seriously damaging and make the writer lose faith in what he's doing. It's the timing that's all-important.
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Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.
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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 began to see new buildings, too, which were connected by futuristic walkways lit from beneath. Long, cool perspectives of modern architecture, rising phosphorescent and eerie from the rubble.
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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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I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.
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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 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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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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All those layers of silence upon silence.
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I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.
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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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Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.
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I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.
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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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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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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 guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle.
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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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