Every new event—everything I did for the rest of my life—would only separate us more and more: days she was no longer a part of, an ever-growing distance between us. Every single day for the rest of my life, she would only be further away. Donna Tartt More Quotes by Donna Tartt More Quotes From Donna Tartt Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction Donna Tartt character blood fiction Who cares? If he is good to you? None of us ever find enough kindness in the world, do we? Donna Tartt who-cares kindness world We looked at each other. And it occurred to me that despite his faults, which were numerous and spectacular, the reason I’d liked Boris and felt happy around him from almost the moment I’d met him was that he was never afraid. You didn’t meet many people who moved freely through the world with such a vigorous contempt for it and at the same time such oddball and unthwartable faith in what, in childhood, he had liked to call “the Planet of Earth. Donna Tartt childhood people world ...as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch. Donna Tartt privilege glory 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. Donna Tartt different together long If I had grown up in that house I couldn't have loved it more, couldn't have been more familiar with the creak of the swing, or the pattern of the clematis vines on the trellis, or the velvety swell of land as it faded to gray on the horizon . . . . The very colors of the place had seeped into my blood. Donna Tartt swings color blood I hate Gucci,' said Francis. 'Do you?' said Henry, glancing up from his reverie. 'Really? I think it's rather grand.' 'Come on, Henry.' 'Well, it's so expensive, but it's so ugly too, isn't it? I think they make it ugly on purpose. And yet people buy it out of sheer perversity.' 'I don't see what you think is grand about that.' 'Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale,' said Henry. Donna Tartt hate people thinking I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell. Donna Tartt stories numbers might She closed her eyes, dark-lidded, dark shadows beneath them; she really was older, not the glancing-eyed girl I had fallen in love with but no less beautiful for that; beautiful now in a way that less excited my senses than tore at my very heart. Donna Tartt girl heart beautiful And as we leave Donne and Walton on the shores of Metahemeralism, we wave a fond farewell to those famous chums of yore. Donna Tartt donne wave farewell If he had his wits about him Bunny would surely keep his mouth shut; but now, with his subconscious mind knocked loose from its perch and flapping in the hollow corridors of his skull as erratically as a bat, there was no way to be sure of anything he might do. Donna Tartt bats skulls mind To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole. Donna Tartt focus hands looks 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. Donna Tartt couple expectations years Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life Donna Tartt truth-about-life take-me truth Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel. Donna Tartt process writing long The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art of what I do lies not in research or even recollection but primarily in invention. Donna Tartt jobs lying art Who was it said that coincidence was just God’s way of remaining anonymous? Donna Tartt coincidence said way I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive. Donna Tartt alive literature character So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter. Donna Tartt southern literature matter In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out. Donna Tartt work-out order long
