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Donna Tartt

"Birds can sing and fish can swim and I can do this."

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"There is no one that cannot make an impact in this world."

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"Getting something and having the wits to use it...those are two different things."

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"Birds can sing and fish can swim and I can do this."

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"I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories."
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"Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time."
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"Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent."
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"Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life."
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"I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much."
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"Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality."
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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."
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