Donna Tartt

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.

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

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

With the lessons taken from the financial crisis in 1997, the Republic of Korea has been able to surmount the global economic crisis rather successfully.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.