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Donna Tartt Quotes

American - Novelist | December 23, 1963 -

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

Life Truth Sad Me Everything Expect

Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent.

Time Way Technical Well-Spent Range

When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.

Rain Water I Am Detail Writing Leaf

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

Children Think Innocence Write Hard

It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.

Work People Me Writing Influence

Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.

Succeed Reality You Lesson Sometimes

Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties.

Book Old Well Like Some Quite

You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it.

Experience You Kind Years Own Just

Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

Think Always Well Found I Think

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.

Business Writing Lonely Hand Mean

I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.

Children Think Innocence Project

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.

Children Time Lie Child Think You

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