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When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.

~Donna Tartt

Topics: After Almost Am Color Concentrating Concrete Detail Drop Leaf Off Painted Rain Rolls Room Water Way Wet Wholly Writing I Am

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

~Donna Tartt

Topics: About Everything Expect Life Longer Me Sad Sad Truth Takes Than Truth

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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.

~Donna Tartt

Topics: Challenging Command Consider Grows Projects Range Taking Technical Time Way Well-Spent Writer

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I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

~Donna Tartt

Topics: About Children Hard Idea Innocence Think Write I Think

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I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.

~Donna Tartt

Topics: Adult Children Innocence Project Really Something Think I Think

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You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it.

~Donna Tartt

Topics: Accumulate Because Experience Just Just Kind Kind Novel Own Put Richness Simply Takes Those Weight Years You Your

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Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties.

~Donna Tartt

Topics: Aunts Book Couple Definitely Like Maiden Old Quite Some Them Well

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

~Donna Tartt

Topics: Always Device Fascinating Found Storytellers Think Well I Think

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On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business.

~Donna Tartt

Topics: Always Been Business Devices Hand Lonely Mean Other Own Rely Supposed Writers Writing

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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.

~Donna Tartt

Topics: Back Child Children Know Lie Like Other Really Think Time You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: December 23rd, 1963

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