The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.
It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially. - Donna Tartt
It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.
- Donna Tartt
And as much as I’d like to believe there’s a truth beyond illusion, I’ve come to believe that there’s no truth beyond illusion. Because, between ‘rea… - Donna Tartt
And as much as I’d like to believe there’s a truth beyond illusion, I’ve come to believe that there’s no truth beyond illusion. Because, between ‘rea…
Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. - Donna Tartt
Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art of what I do lies not in researc… - Donna Tartt
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art of what I do lies not in researc…
I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there. - Donna Tartt
I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.
The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room… - Donna Tartt
The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room…
Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness. - Donna Tartt
Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.
Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life - Donna Tartt
Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life
Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality. - Donna Tartt
Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.
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