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
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.
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.
miracle manage
I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle.
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
children emotional adults
Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.
sublime world phenomenal
I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?
solitude
I really do work in solitude.
thinking needs kind
To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.
thinking murder found
Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.
couple years expectations
There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.
hands style elegance
Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.
thinking fool doe
Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.
oatmeal holes sock
No money, holes in my socks, living off oatmeal.