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
Donna Tartt quotes about
job novelist
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.
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.
recognition shock
I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all.