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Donna Tartt

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  • “Everything takes me longer than I expect. It’s the sad truth about life.” -Donna Tartt

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  • “But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.” -Donna Tartt

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  • “The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they’re learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.” -Donna Tartt

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  • “I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.” -Donna Tartt

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  • To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone. – Donna Tartt

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