“Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.”
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Famous Donna Tartt Quotes
“I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?”
Source: The Secret History
“I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.”
“I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.”
“If I'm not working, I'm not happy. That's it. That's the prerequisite for me for happiness.”
“Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.”
“Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life”
“But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work”
“Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy”
“Beauty alters the grain of reality.”
Source: The Goldfinch
“I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.”
“As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.”
Source: The Goldfinch
Source: The Secret History
“No money, holes in my socks, living off oatmeal.”
Source: The Goldfinch
“After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great”
Source: The Secret History
“Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.”
Source: The Secret History
“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
“Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.”