7 Donna Tartt Quotes on Process

Donna Tartt quotes on process

1. Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.

2. Anyway, it gets into one's blood, this long lonely way of writing, like a long sea-voyage.

14. I really do work in solitude.

24. It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.

26. 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.

27. 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.

39. 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.