626 Quotes by Donna Tartt

I mean, this man was not /Voltaire/ we killed.

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

When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.

When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.

From the window, above the clatter of pots and the slamming of cabinets, Francis was singing, as though it was the happiest song in the world: 'We are the little black sheep who have gone astray . . . Baa baa baa . . . Gentlemen songsters off on a spree . . . Doomed from here to eternity . . .

Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy

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

Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.

And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them from the fire, and sought them when they were lost, and tried to preserve them and save them while passing them along literally from hand to hand, singing out brilliantly from the wreck of time to the next generation of lovers, and the next.