Donna Tartt Quotes on Process
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Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.
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Anyway, it gets into one's blood, this long lonely way of writing, like a long sea-voyage.
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I really do work in solitude.
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It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.
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My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time.
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On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to--I mean, writing is a lonely business.
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Well, a novel does acquire a certain kind of richness when you work on it for a long time that can't really be faked.