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
beautiful caring care
Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?
laughter light secret
I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.
love too-much
Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.
thinking different daze
It's funny, but thinking back on it now, I realize that this particular point in time, as I stood there blinking in the deserted hall, was the one point at which I might have chosen to do something very much different from what I actually did. But of course I didn't see this crucial moment for what it actually was; I suppose we never do. Instead, I only yawned, and shook myself from the momentary daze that had come upon me, and went on my way down the stairs.
genuine contrary
Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.
snow mountain melting
The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.
new-york moving writing
It happened in New York, April 10th, nineteen years ago. Even my hand balks at the date. I had to push to write it down, just to keep the pen moving on the paper. It used to be a perfectly ordinary day, but now it sticks up on the calendar like a rusty nail.
book writing mediocre
I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.
reading practice style
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.
challenges way range
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
pace vary
But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work
reality lessons succeed
Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.
song sheep gentleman
From the window, above the clatter of pots and the slamming of cabinets, Francis was singing, as though it was the happiest song in the world: 'We are the little black sheep who have gone astray . . . Baa baa baa . . . Gentlemen songsters off on a spree . . . Doomed from here to eternity . . .
fun book writing
As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.