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
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.
southern matter environment
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.
romantic-love vision important
But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
privilege glory
...as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.
skulls mind mouths
If he had his wits about him Bunny would surely keep his mouth shut; but now, with his subconscious mind knocked loose from its perch and flapping in the hollow corridors of his skull as erratically as a bat, there was no way to be sure of anything he might do.
lasts moments said
Are you happy here?" I said at last. He considered this for a moment. "Not particularly," he said. "But you're not very happy where you are, either.
being-yourself littles appeals
After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great
eerie long perspective
I began to see new buildings, too, which were connected by futuristic walkways lit from beneath. Long, cool perspectives of modern architecture, rising phosphorescent and eerie from the rubble.
recognition shock
I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all.
numbers might able
I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.
couple book aunt
Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties.
kindness care world
Who cares? If he is good to you? None of us ever find enough kindness in the world, do we?
not-happy ifs prerequisites
If I'm not working, I'm not happy. That's it. That's the prerequisite for me for happiness.
job novelist
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.