4 Donna Tartt Quotes on Character

Donna Tartt quotes on character

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

10. For a novelist to create character, I think, takes a sharp objective eye but also an intuitive intelligence, a receptiveness, a wilingness to make oneself blank in order to percieve things as they actually are.

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

36. The trick of creating character is to try to see all people, even unsympathetic ones, without projecting one's own personality and values on them.