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Donna Tartt
December 23, 1963 -
Nationality: American
Category: Novelist
Subcategory: American Novelist

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.

   

But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work.

   

Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.

   

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.

   

The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.

   

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.

   

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.

   

Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

   

In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.

   

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.

   

The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.

   

I really do work in solitude.

   

I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

   

Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.

   

I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.

   

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.

   

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