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I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

~Donna Tartt

Topics: Book Good Good Book Mediocre Rather Ten Than Write

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Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.

~Donna Tartt

Topics: Adult Children Emotional More Much Observation Powers Primitive Reactions Same Same Time Sharp Sharper Than Time Very

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Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.

~Donna Tartt

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The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.

~Donna Tartt

Topics: Gift Innate Learned Least Listening Looking Partly Practice Reading Storytelling Style Thing Work

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The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.

~Donna Tartt

Topics: Books Childhood Essential First Inside Loved Loves Me More Now Often Out Read Really Some Than Them Way

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So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter.

~Donna Tartt

Topics: Commonly Entire Environment Faulkner Held Like Literary Matter Sense South Southern Subject Subject Matter Term Took Who Writer

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: December 23rd, 1963

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