Quote #5
Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.
More from Donna Tartt
- But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
- 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.
- But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work.
- Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky an…
- Anyway, it gets into one's blood, this long lonely way of writing, like a long sea-voyage.
- Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.
- Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.
- Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.