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Sometimes it's about playing a poor hand well.
— Donna Tartt
There's a big anti-intellectual strain in the American south, and there always has been. We're not big on thought.
— Donna Tartt
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.
— Donna Tartt
Starched shirts and suits fresh from the cleaners' went a long, long way toward hiding a multitude of sins.
— Donna Tartt
She was as cool as dammit.
— Donna Tartt
Even on the highest levels it was smoke and mirrors; everyone was furnishing a stage set.
— Donna Tartt
This whole town is like a big Fuck You to Thoreau.
— Donna Tartt
Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.
— Donna Tartt
Beauty is terror.
— Donna Tartt
At first I thought they were playing to an
— Donna Tartt
the atmosphere it breathed was like the light-rinsed airiness of a wall opposite an open window.
— Donna Tartt
Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.
— Donna Tartt
Over 2,000 reptiles await you.
— Donna Tartt
Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.
— Donna Tartt
I've come to believe that there's no truth beyond
— Donna Tartt
won't last, it's
— Donna Tartt
When she went back to the telephone Hely's breath, on the other end, was ragged and secretive.
— Donna Tartt
But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work.
— Donna Tartt
The world won't come to me...so I must go to it.
— Donna Tartt
Let's both be good, and truthful, and kind to each other, and let's be happy together and have fun always.
— Donna Tartt
Understand, by saying 'God,' I am merely using 'God' as reference to long-term pattern we can't decipher.
— Donna Tartt
Hely's feelings didn't run very deep; he lived in sunny shallows where it was always warm and bright.
— Donna Tartt
No, he's asleep. Where's my mother? Is
— Donna Tartt
It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.
— Donna Tartt
I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.
— Donna Tartt
It's a long story. I'll make it short as I can.
— Donna Tartt
And yet isn't it always the inappropriate thing, the thing that doesn't quite work, that's oddly the dearest?
— Donna Tartt
telephone, "Myriam's not my wife! This - " he handed
— Donna Tartt
It's a perfectly handy skill for any boy to know." "Certainly it is, if he needs to hail a passing tugboat.
— Donna Tartt
If I'm not working, I'm not happy. That's it. That's the prerequisite for me for happiness.
— Donna Tartt
I am an alcoholic. I'm the first to admit that. I can't drink at all. One drink is too many and a thousand's not enough.
— Donna Tartt
Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale.
— Donna Tartt
jeans jacket, catching him in a chokehold, pistol at
— Donna Tartt
You are, and you are very very gifted at all the aspects of the business I don't care to deal with, and you
— Donna Tartt
Janet who said excellent! in answer to everything and drank coffee from a pink mug that said Janet.
— Donna Tartt
wheels caught and I was flung into ordinary
— Donna Tartt
I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
— Donna Tartt
Your silence is not acceptable.
— Donna Tartt
I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.
— Donna Tartt
See?" said Boris, interrupting Vitya right in
— Donna Tartt
A guesstimate?" prompted the man Enrique. "About your dad?" "Ballpark will do," the Korean lady said.
— Donna Tartt
No money, holes in my socks, living off oatmeal.
— Donna Tartt
But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
— Donna Tartt
The smells, the shadows, even the dappled pale trunks of the plane trees lifted my spirits
— Donna Tartt
Other means) claiming to Hobie that I'd already sold the
— Donna Tartt
When you feel homesick,' he said, 'just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.
— Donna Tartt
And sharp-faced, like Boris, but with an evil red-rimmed gaze and tiny, brownish sawteeth. He made me think of a rabid fox.
— Donna Tartt
But the first rule of restorations, as he'd taught me earlier on, was that you never did what you couldn't reverse.
— Donna Tartt
He said well if you can't plan it out ahead of time, you'll just have to work it out as you go along
— Donna Tartt
A different and much deeper sort of beauty altogether. The thing and yet not the thing.
— Donna Tartt
Maybe the one had to be lost for the others to be found?
— Donna Tartt
Our large age difference made us shy with each other; there was a formality, a generational reserve;
— Donna Tartt
All my life, people have taken my shyness for sullenness, snobbery, bad temper of one sort or another.
— Donna Tartt
Different cultures and all that, but it's true what they say about the Japanese being undemonstrative.
— Donna Tartt
I mean, this man was not /Voltaire/ we killed.
— Donna Tartt
