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Storytelling and elegant styl...

Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.

Donna Tartt 121 quotes

Children love secret club hou...

Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.

Donna Tartt 121 quotes

Well, I do have some maiden a...

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 121 quotes

I'm not sure whay I've been d...

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.

Donna Tartt 121 quotes

There's an expectation these ...

There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.

Donna Tartt 121 quotes

The Little Friend is a long b...

The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.

Donna Tartt 121 quotes

Taking on challenging project...

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.

Donna Tartt 121 quotes

You are - all your experience...

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 121 quotes

The storytelling gift is inna...

The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.

Donna Tartt 121 quotes

So I'm not a Southern writer ...

So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter.

Donna Tartt 121 quotes

But it's for every writer to ...

But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work.

Donna Tartt 121 quotes

On the other hand, I mean, th...

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.

Donna Tartt 121 quotes

I love the tradition of Dicke...

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

Donna Tartt 121 quotes

Actually, I enjoy the process...

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.

Donna Tartt 121 quotes

I believe, in a funny way, the...

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.

Donna Tartt 121 quotes

To really be centered and to r...

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.

Donna Tartt 121 quotes

Everything takes me longer tha...

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

Donna Tartt 121 quotes

But romantic vision can also l...

But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.

Donna Tartt 121 quotes

The novel is about five studen...

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.

Donna Tartt 121 quotes

Beauty is terror. Whatever we ...

Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.

Donna Tartt 121 quotes

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