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Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.

~Donna Tartt

Topics: Children Club Even Houses Love Need Secrecy Secret

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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.

~Donna Tartt

Topics: About Bit Classics Consequences Five Him Ideas Learning Novel Professor Seriously Students Studying Take Terrible Things Too Who

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I really do work in solitude.

~Donna Tartt

Topics: Really Solitude Work

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It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.

~Donna Tartt

Topics: Because Comments Happens Hard Influence Me Other People Show While Will Work Writing

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To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.

~Donna Tartt

Topics: About Alone Amount Centered Kinds Large Need Really Spend Things Think Time Well Work

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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.

~Donna Tartt

Topics: Deal Engage Extended Find Important Long Novelist Order Out Over Period Piece Questions Time Trying Very Work Work Out You

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But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.

~Donna Tartt

Topics: About Also Away Certain Hard Important Know Lead Life Romantic Truths Ugly Very Vision

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Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.

~Donna Tartt

Topics: Hard Lesson Reality Right Right Things Sometimes Succeed Things You

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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.

~Donna Tartt

Topics: Been Believe Experience Funny Funny Way Job Novelist Out Really Speaking Spoken Way I Believe I Believe In

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My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time.

~Donna Tartt

Topics: Come Conceptual Different Elements Long Long Period Many More Novels Over Period Process Really Single Spark Time Together Unexpectedly

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: December 23rd, 1963

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