Donna Tartt Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

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

“I really do work in solitude.”

“My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time.”

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

“Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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