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Donna Tartt

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

Donna Tartt

The books I loved in childhood – the first loves – I’ve read so often that I’ve internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.

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

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Children have very sharp powers of observation – probably sharper than adults – yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.

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I’d rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

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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

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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.

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

– Donna Tartt

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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.

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I’ve written only two novels, but they’re both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

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

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I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.

– Donna Tartt

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