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 long process
Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.
not-happy ifs prerequisites
If I'm not working, I'm not happy. That's it. That's the prerequisite for me for happiness.
character alive tradition
I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
hands focus looks
To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole;
job novelist
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.