American - Novelist | December 23, 1963 -
Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.
Donna Tartt
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The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.
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I really do work in solitude.
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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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In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.
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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 believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.
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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'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.
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Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.
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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 job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.
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