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
children thinking adults
I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.
pace vary
But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work
children lying thinking
Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time
character blood fiction
Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction
truth-about-life take-me sad-truth
Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life
girl winter cities
They were playing old Bob Dylan, more than perfect for narrow Village streets close to Christmas and the snow whirling down in big feathery flakes, the kind of winter where you want to be walking down a city street with your arm around a girl like on the old record cover.
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.
years experience weight
You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it.
wall flower reflection
The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as if a city were burning outside. The whoosh of the flames was like a flock of birds, trapped and beating in a whirlwind near the ceiling. And I wouldn't have been at all surprised if the long mahogany banquet table, draped in linen, laden with china and candles and fruit and flowers, had simply vanished into thin air, like a magic casket in a fairy story.
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.
long people stories
I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.
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.
writing admire maxwell
I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.
mother said terror
Death is the mother of beauty,” said Henry. “And what is beauty?” “Terror.