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I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.

~Donna Tartt

Topics: Always Been Drawn Except Long People Stories Subject Sure Telling

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Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.

~Donna Tartt

Topics: Blood Character Fiction Life Me

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I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.

~Donna Tartt

Topics: Alive Characters Dickens Even Love Minor Most Particular Tradition Where I Love

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The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.

~Donna Tartt

Topics: Color Embellish Invent Job Make Novelist Things Up

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

~Donna Tartt

Topics: About Admire American Essay Finished Just Much Very Whose William Work Writer Writing

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Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.

~Donna Tartt

Topics: Actually Big Enjoy Long Novel Process Writing

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I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

~Donna Tartt

Topics: Both Decade Each Long Novels Only Took Two Write Written

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There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.

~Donna Tartt

Topics: Any Belt Consumer Couple Days Dropping Every Expectation Like Line Made Novels Other Product Production Should Years

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

~Donna Tartt

Topics: Decide Every His Own Pace Varies Work Writer

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The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.

~Donna Tartt

Topics: Also Approach Book Characters Diction Different Different Characters First Friend Landscape Language Little Long Novel Story Use

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: December 23rd, 1963

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