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
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
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
If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any ones judgment, till I see the end of another year for the Lord will begin with a new century and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any mans judgment. – Joanna Southcott