5 Donna Tartt Quotes on Fiction

Donna Tartt quotes on fiction

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

18. 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.

19. 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.

34. The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art of what I do lies not in research or even recollection but primarily in invention.

41. Well, I'm not interested in murder so much in the aspects of, you know, sleuthing and detection and that sort of thing. I'm much more interested in the echoes and repercussions of the act through time.