626 Quotes by Donna Tartt

I do not now nor did I ever have anything in common with any of them, nothing except a knowledge of Greek and the year of my life I spent in their company. And if love is a thing held in common, I suppose we had that in common, too, though I realize that might sound odd in light of the story I am about to tell.

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.

Whatever else one may say about guilt, it certainly lends one diabolical powers of invention;.

Sometimes, when there’s been an accident and reality is too sudden and strange to comprehend, the surreal will take over. Action slows to a dreamlike glide, frame by frame; the motion of a hand, a sentence spoken, fills an eternity. Little things – a cricket on a stem, the veined branches on a leaf – are magnified, brought from the background in achingly clear focus. And.

Bad artists copy, good artists steal.

And isn’t the whole point of things – beautiful things – that they connect you to some larger beauty?

Even if life is great – keep it to yourself. You don’t want to tempt the devil.

You amaze me,” he said. “You think nothing exists if you can’t see it.

Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.