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
writing thinking editors
I think it's especially important for an editor to say what he's enjoying. For a novelist to be told, midstream, what he's doing right can actually influence the unwritten parts of a novel in a positive way - praise helps a writer know what's good about what he's written, what's interesting and exciting, and what to work for in writing the conclusion.
children writing thinking
I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.
rain writing color
When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.
writing two long
I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.
writing long process
Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.
writing people influence
It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.
writing admire maxwell
I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.
lonely mean writing
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.
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.
fun book writing
As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.
book writing waiting-rooms
The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.
job novelist
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.
trying want achieve
There's nothing like having a sympathetic reader who asks the right questions, who understands what you're trying to achieve and only wants to make it better.