I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.
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The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.Donna Tartt
I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.
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Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties.
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People always want to call me a Southern writer but though I grew up in the South, I don't feel that the label quite fits my work.
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Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.
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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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