Donna Tartt Quotes on Literature
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I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
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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.
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Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.
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There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.