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Donna Tartt

"Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?"

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"Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?"

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Akiroq Brost

"The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth."

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"Character in decay is the theme of the great bulk of superior fiction."

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"Stories are like children. They grow in their own way."

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Akiroq Brost

"In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself."

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"It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then."

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Akiroq Brost

"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."

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Akiroq Brost

"As a novelist it is my job to tell stories that inspire and entertain but I am increasingly mindful that many of these historical tales (which of themselves are fascinating) relate directly to our issues in society today."

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Akiroq Brost

"I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read them and then make sure that he had plenty of opportunities to disobey you."

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Akiroq Brost

"I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy."Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what isstrong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, Iam convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away."

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"The literary man re-reads, other men simply read."

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Donna Tartt
"Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life."

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Donna Tartt
"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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Donna Tartt
"But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illumined in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead."

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Donna Tartt
"You'd be surprised, Theo." she said, leaning back in her shawl-shaped chair, "what small, everyday things can lift us out of despair. But nobody can do it for you. You're the one who has to watch for the open door."

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Donna Tartt
"Is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?"

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Donna Tartt
"It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate."

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Donna Tartt
"What's worth living for? what's worth dying for? what's completely foolish to pursue?"

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Donna Tartt
"They were playing old Bob Dylan, more than perfect for narrow Village streets close to Christmas and the snow whirling down in big feathery flakes, the kind of winter where you want to be walking down a city street with your arm around a girl like on the old record cover."

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Donna Tartt
"So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter."

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Donna Tartt
"Grown children (an oxymoron, I realize) veer instinctively to extremes: the young scholar is much more a pedant than his older counterpart. And I, being young myself, took these pronouncements of Henry's very seriously. I doubt if Milton himself could have impressed me more."

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