Top 36 Quotes by Donna Tartt

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

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.

Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent.

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

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

I really do work in solitude.

My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time.

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

But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work.

Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.