626 Quotes by Donna Tartt

Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she'd wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was a certain lonely comfort in the fact that she'd known it was impossible and had gone ahead and done it anyway.

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

Sometimes it's about playing a poor hand well.

Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.

After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great

Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.

Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.

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.

I'm not sure whay 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.