But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know. – 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
Everything takes me longer than I expect. Its the sad truth about life. – Donna Tartt
The first purpose of clothes… was not warmth or decency, but ornament…. Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. – Thomas Carlyle