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
mistake book fall
I'd always rather stand or fall on my own mistakes. There's nothing worse than looking back, in a published book, at a line edit or a copy edit that you felt queasy about and didn't want to take, but took anyway.
genuine contrary
Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.
sublime world phenomenal
I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?
oatmeal holes sock
No money, holes in my socks, living off oatmeal.
pace vary
But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work
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.
being-yourself littles appeals
After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great
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.
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.