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Donna Tartt
 
Date of birth: 23 December 1963
Date of death: Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin: America
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" You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it. "

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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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" Well, I'm not interested in murder so much in the aspects of, you know, sleuthing and detection and that sort of thing. I'm much more interested in the echoes and repercussions of the act through time. "

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" Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device. "

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" Well, I didn't know any snake-handling ministers. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

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" 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. "

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" There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years. "

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" There's also a bit of family echo in the character of Harriet. Harriet is kind of a recurring state of mind in my mother's side of the family. "

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" The trick of creating character is to try to see all people, even unsympathetic ones, without projecting one's own personality and values on them. "

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" The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work. "

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" The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences. "

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" The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up. "

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" The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story. "

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