Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt
Donna Tarttis an American writer and author of the novels The Secret History, The Little Friend, and The Goldfinch. Tartt won the WH Smith Literary Award for The Little Friend in 2003 and the Pulitzer Prizefor The Goldfinch in 2014 and she was named in the TIME 100: The 100 Most Influential People in 2014...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 December 1963
CityGreenwood, MS
CountryUnited States of America
mother said terror
Death is the mother of beauty,” said Henry. “And what is beauty?” “Terror.
way essentials subtle
In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.
thinking tears matter
But how,” said Charles, who was close to tears, “how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?’ Henry lit a cigarette. “I prefer to think of it,” he had said, “as redistribution of matter.
way expected happened
Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn't be any other way.
grief intimate objects
...with a grief no less sharp for not being intimate with its object.
done enough scales
Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale.
memories solitude departed
Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to really grasp ever at all.It is only later, in solitude, in memory that the realization dawns: when the ashes are cold; when the mourners have departed; when one looks around and finds oneself - quite to one's surprise - in an entirely different world.
long together elements
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.
writing two long
I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.
order work-out long
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.
beautiful stars distance
And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of color across the sky—so the space where I exist, and want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in, is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime.
writing long process
Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.
america intellectual bigs
There's a big anti-intellectual strain in the American south, and there always has been. We're not big on thought.
truth-about-life take-me sad-truth
Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life