Top 36 Quotes by Donna Tartt

I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.

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.

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.

Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

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.

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

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.

Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.