It's funny, but thinking back on it now, I realize that this particular point in time, as I … - Donna Tartt

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I loved the sound of the words, even if I was not entirely sure what all of them meant.

Donna Tartt

It's funny, but thinking back on it now, I realize that this particular point in time, as I stood there blinking in the deserted hall, was the one point at which I might have chosen to do something very much different from what I actually did. But of course I didn't see this crucial moment for what it actually was; I suppose we never do. Instead, I only yawned, and shook myself from the momentary daze that had come upon me, and went on my way down the stairs.

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The trouble is when people read about authors, they don't feel compelled to read the authors' work.

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I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle.

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When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.

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There's a big anti-intellectual strain in the American south, and there always has been. We're not big on thought.

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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.

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