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 Read Quote
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up. Donna Tartt Read Quote
But it’s for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work. Donna Tartt Read Quote
Children – if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children – children lie all the time. Donna Tartt Read Quote
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 Read Quote
In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you’re trying to work out. Donna Tartt Read Quote
Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there’s no need for secrecy. Donna Tartt Read Quote
But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know. Donna Tartt Read Quote