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Donna Tartt Quotes

I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Love Tradition Alive Where Even

I'm a percussionist, so that's most of what I know when I attack a record. Melodically, knowing the keys - my first love - that makes the perfect blend.

Love Perfect Know Knowing First

Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

History Book Black American Jewish

In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.

John Sergeant Wise

Slavery Philadelphia Now Days Even

I had a lot of older musicians looking out for me, teaching me, and showing me things when they saw how interested I was in music from a young age. They would take me to the side and just play some things in my ear, and I would try to play it back to them.

Trombone Shorty

Music Age Me Looking Musicians Play

I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!

Blue Dream Out Poet Something Been

'The Dovekeepers' is a fantastic novel written by Alice Hoffman; it was a bestselling novel, and I fell in love with the book and bought the rights to it.

Love Book Rights Fantastic Novel

Happiness, it's a small thing - just a very little thing.

Happiness Small Little Just Very

The reason that fish form schools, birds form flocks, and bees form swarms is that they are smarter together than they would be apart. They don't take a vote; they don't take a poll: they form a system. They are all interactive and make a decision together in real time.

Louis B. Rosenberg

Time Decision Together Birds Fish

I continued to protect him with my silence.

Silence Protect Him

Few people seem to realize that the resurrection of Jesus is the cornerstone to a worldview that provides the perspective to all of life.

Life Perspective People Realize Seem

It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people.

People Understand Will Difficult Who

There are always people screeching and upset that I did this or didn't do that. Basically, they're upset that I didn't rewrite an earlier book they particularly liked.

People Book Upset Always Did Liked

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