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Donna Tartt Quotes

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.

Donna Tartt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Experience You Kind Years Own Just

When I'm writing a song, I'm just making stuff up as I go along.

John Darnielle

Writing Song Go Up Along Stuff

Tax reform is a once-in-a-generation opportunity.

Max Baucus

Opportunity Tax Reform Tax Reform

Our nation has kept faith with its veterans. Funding for veterans healthcare and benefits is strong, and has increased more than 75 percent in the last decade.

Steve Buyer

Faith Strong Healthcare Veterans

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

Michel de Montaigne

Life My Life Never Terrible Been

There's a bigger percentage of good cops than bad cops. But the bad cops should be penalised like regular people.

Michael Pena

Good People Bad Bigger Cops Like

Given the current state of publishing, I think it helps to have a brand name on the cover of your book. Comedians are proven commodities with built-in audiences. They may not have the writing chops of a Dave Eggers, but they're salacious and funny and self-reflective.

Michael Showalter

Funny Writing Book Think Brand Name

I hope that the image of gene therapy is changing. It seems to be.

Liz Parrish

Hope Therapy Image Seems Changing

You don't get there the easy way. If you feel sorry for yourself, and you let yourself go down, you will drown.

Debbie Reynolds

Yourself Sorry Feel Easy You Down

The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product.

Brian Harris

Failure Socialism Wealth Product Own

My character is not flawless.

Breckin Meyer

Character Flawless

In focusing towards the outer world, we celebs forget to focus on our inner well-being. We don't lead perfect lives, and only when we learn to have peace with our family members can we have peace in life.

Shilpa Shetty

Life Family Focus Peace World Learn

I'm definitely an actor first, but it's fun to kind of, you know, push your boundaries and see if you can do things that have scared you a little bit your whole life.

Sean Hayes

Life Fun Push You Know Kind