Donna Tartt Quotes About Writing
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Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.
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I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.
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I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.
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As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.
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I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.
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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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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.
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I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.
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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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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.
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I think it's especially important for an editor to say what he's enjoying. For a novelist to be told, midstream, what he's doing right can actually influence the unwritten parts of a novel in a positive way - praise helps a writer know what's good about what he's written, what's interesting and exciting, and what to work for in writing the conclusion.
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It happened in New York, April 10th, nineteen years ago. Even my hand balks at the date. I had to push to write it down, just to keep the pen moving on the paper. It used to be a perfectly ordinary day, but now it sticks up on the calendar like a rusty nail.
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