Best quotes by Donna Tartt on Work

Checkout quotes by Donna Tartt on Work

• ‟ I really do work in solitude.

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• ‟ The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.

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• ‟ I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.

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• ‟ It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.

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• ‟ But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work.

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