4 Donna Tartt Quotes on Literature

Donna Tartt quotes on literature

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

29. 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.

31. Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.

37. 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.