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Donna Tartt Quotes

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.

Donna Tartt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 23, 1963

Topics

Book Old Well Like Some Quite

We're novices. We have friends now who are part of the freshman class who in some cases have run for Congress two and three times before they won their seat.

Max Burns

Friends Now Three Run Class Two

I thought I wanted to be a pediatrician because, as a second job, my mother would clean up a pediatrician's office. So I was like, 'Oh, OK, baby doctor.' Until I got to college, and all the courses of science with the blood, guts and cadavers? I was like, 'Mm, no.'

Angela Bassett

Mother Science Job College Baby

At 22, I had something I loved to do - make pizza - and something I was good at: running a business.

John Schnatter

Good Business Pizza Loved Something

I remember girls watching it in high school, and I thought the basketball part of the show was cool. And lo and behold, a few years later, I found myself in 'Tree Hill' land.

Stephen Colletti

Myself Tree School Cool Basketball

I grew up in the hills and studied in college in Himachal Pradesh.

Mohit Chauhan

College Up Hills Grew Studied

I felt like, 'How do I fit in?' But then I never fit in. The whole time, I've never fit in.

Missy Elliott

Time Never Whole Fit Like How

I've never really thought about competing with cartoons. If it ever gets to that point, then just shoot me.

Lucy Liu

Me Thought Never Point Shoot Just

At one point, I was seriously considering playing Huck Finn in a production in Northern Maine in the dead of winter.

David Walton

Winter Seriously Dead Production

Whatever I do, I do it because I want to do it and because it's completely, 100% me.

Wiz Khalifa

Me Want Whatever Because

My first published novel, 'American Rust,' took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.

Philipp Meyer

Work American Three First Rust Two

My grandmother worked on a fruit and vegetable market stall.

Petra Stunt

Fruit Grandmother Market Vegetable

I travel pretty frequently, but a few things that are routine are going for a run, getting my green tea in the morning, and checking email... well, all the time!

Payal Kadakia

Morning Time Travel Tea Green Run