Everything takes me longer than I expect. Its the sad truth about life. – Donna Tartt
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. – Donna Tartt
The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that theyre learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences. – Donna Tartt
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. – Donna Tartt
What makes me sad about school is that the people who are unhappy are unhappy because they dont believe it will change. And I just want to say: It does! High school ends and its over. I will tell anyone that its OK to be unhappy at school, make lots of mistakes and then it will be over. – Alice Englert