Donna Tartt Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.

  Donna Tartt

  Book, Reading, Being Alone

• The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I’ve read so often that I’ve internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.

  Donna Tartt

  Book, First Love, Aquariums

  "A Conversation with Donna Tartt, Author of THE LITTLE FRIEND". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

• It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.

  Donna Tartt

  Book, Hundred, Knows

• I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

  Donna Tartt

  Book, Writing, Mediocre

• As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.

  Donna Tartt

  Fun, Book, Writing

• Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties.

  Donna Tartt

  Couple, Book, Aunt

• As I stood with her on the platform - she impatient, tapping her foot, leaning forward to look down the tracks - it seemed more than I could bear to see her go. Francis was around the corner, buying her a book to read on the train. 'I don't want you to leave,' I said. 'I don't want to, either.' 'Then don't.' 'I have to.' We stood looking at each other. It was raining. She looked at me with her rain-colored eyes. Camilla, I love you,' I said. 'Let's get married.

  Donna Tartt

  Rain, Book, Love You

  Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.519, Vintage

• The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.

  Donna Tartt

  Book, Character, Long

• I'd always rather stand or fall on my own mistakes. There's nothing worse than looking back, in a published book, at a line edit or a copy edit that you felt queasy about and didn't want to take, but took anyway.

  Donna Tartt

  Mistake, Book, Fall

  Interview with Michael Pietsch, www.slate.com. October 11, 2013.

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