I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence. - Donna Tartt

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The physical symptoms of fight or flight are what the human body has learned over thousands of years to operate efficiently and at the highest level. . . anxiety is a cognitive interpretation of that physical response.

Donna Tartt

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

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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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I think recharging is important, absolutely. Every now and then, you need maybe a couple of weeks to just chill out and let your emotions balance themselves out a little bit.

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Mark Twain

The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. from "Disappearance of Literature

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We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat.

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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.

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