I'd always rather stand or fall on my own mistakes. There's nothing worse than looking back, in a … - Donna Tartt

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Capitalism and the thirst for profit without limits of the capitalist system are destroying the planet. . . Climate change has placed all humankind before a great choice: to continue in the ways of capitalism and death, or to start down the path of harmony with nature and respect for life.

Donna Tartt

I'd always rather stand or fall on my own mistakes. There's nothing worse than looking back, in a published book, at a line edit or a copy edit that you felt queasy about and didn't want to take, but took anyway.

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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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