Top 36 Quotes by Donna Tartt

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

Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.

I really do work in solitude.

I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.

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.

I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.

Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time.

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.

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.