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Donna Tartt Quotes

Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that’s a hard lesson of reality Picture Quote #1

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone Picture Quote #1

Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties Picture Quote #1

When I’m writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain Picture Quote #1

The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone Picture Quote #1

If I had grown up in that house I couldn’t have loved it more, couldn’t have been more familiar with the creak of the swing, or the pattern of the clematis vines on the trellis, or the velvety swell of land as it faded to gray on the horizon... The very colors of the place had seeped into my blood Picture Quote #1

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Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she’d wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was a certain lonely comfort in the fact that she’d known it was impossible and had gone ahead and done it anyway Picture Quote #1

Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn’t be any other way Picture Quote #1

... as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch Picture Quote #1

Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you Picture Quote #1

Always remember, the person we’re really working for is the person who’s restoring the piece a hundred years from now. He’s the one we want to impress Picture Quote #1

Who cares? If he is good to you? None of us ever find enough kindness in the world, do we? Picture Quote #1

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A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are Picture Quote #1

To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole; Picture Quote #1

I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe Picture Quote #1

But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know Picture Quote #1

If I’m not working, I’m not happy. That’s it. That’s the prerequisite for me for happiness Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that Picture Quote #1

After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great Picture Quote #1

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Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that’s a hard lesson of reality (Donna Tartt Quotes) To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone (Donna Tartt Quotes) Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties (Donna Tartt Quotes) When I’m writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain (Donna Tartt Quotes) The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone (Donna Tartt Quotes) If I had grown up in that house I couldn’t have loved it more, couldn’t have been more familiar with the creak of the swing, or the pattern of the clematis vines on the trellis, or the velvety swell of land as it faded to gray on the horizon... The very colors of the place had seeped into my blood (Donna Tartt Quotes) Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she’d wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was a certain lonely comfort in the fact that she’d known it was impossible and had gone ahead and done it anyway (Donna Tartt Quotes) Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn’t be any other way (Donna Tartt Quotes) ... as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch (Donna Tartt Quotes) Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you (Donna Tartt Quotes) Always remember, the person we’re really working for is the person who’s restoring the piece a hundred years from now. He’s the one we want to impress (Donna Tartt Quotes) Who cares? If he is good to you? None of us ever find enough kindness in the world, do we? (Donna Tartt Quotes) A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are (Donna Tartt Quotes) To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole; (Donna Tartt Quotes) I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe (Donna Tartt Quotes) But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know (Donna Tartt Quotes) If I’m not working, I’m not happy. That’s it. That’s the prerequisite for me for happiness (Donna Tartt Quotes) 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 (Donna Tartt Quotes) As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that (Donna Tartt Quotes) After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great (Donna Tartt Quotes)

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