The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a … - Donna Tartt

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

The practical man is the adventurer, the investigator, the believer in research, the asker of questions, the man who refuses to believe that perfection has been attained. . . . There is no thrill or joy in merely doing that which any one can do. . . . It is always safe to assume, not that the old way is wrong, but that there may be a better way.

Donna Tartt

The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.

Innate, Practice, Reading, Storytelling, Style

Same Author Quotes

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

Authors, Feels, People, Read, Trouble, Work

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

Guess, History, Manage, Miracle, Save

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.

Color, Concentrating, Rain, Wholly, Writing

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

America, American, Bigs, Intellectual, Strain, Thought

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.

Couple, Expectations, Line, Production, Years