Donna Tartt - Interview/Quotes

A 2014 interview with donna tart, after her newest book "The goldfinch" was named Amazon's Book of the Year. Tartt joins "CBS This Morning" co-host Charlie Rose to discuss the inspiration for her novel and her writing process.

Links to other interviews, book reviews, and analysis;

• http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/arts-and-books/donna-tartt-secret-history-20-year-anniversary
• http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/interview-the-very-very-private-life-of-ms-donna-tartt-29780543.html
• http://www.languageisavirus.com/donna_tartt/about-childhood.php#.VgepqentLKd
• http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/book-of-a-lifetime-the-secret-history-by-donna-tartt-769505.html
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Quotes from Donna Tart;

• "Everything takes me longer than expected, its the  sad truth about life."
• "When i am writing, i am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail; the colour a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain."
• "Sometimes you can do all the right things and not success, and thats a harsh lesson of reality."
• "The job of the novelist is to invent; to embroider, to colour, to embellish, to make things up."
• "I love the tradition of dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive."
• "The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work."
• "I don't know why 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."
• "But its for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work."
• "id rather write one good book than 10 mediocre ones.
• "To really be centred 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."
• "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."
• "I really do work in solitude."