Quote #17

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

More from Donna Tartt

  1. I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.
  2. I'm not so interested in the act of murder as in the echoes and repercussions of the act, and how they play out over time.
  3. I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.
  4. 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 …
  5. I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.
  6. I really do work in solitude.
  7. 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 im…
  8. I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.

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