Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.
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Donna Tartt
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About Donna Tartt
Donna Louise Tartt is an American novelist. She wrote the novels The Secret History (1992), The Little Friend (2002), and The Goldfinch (2013), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was adapted into a 2019 film of the same name. She was included in Time magazine's 2014 "100 Most Influential People" list.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Donna TarttBut romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
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 conseq…
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.
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.