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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The trick of creating character is to try to see all people, even unsympathetic ones, without projecting one's own personality and values on them.Donna Tartt
I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.
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The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.
Donna Tartt
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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Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent.
Donna Tartt
Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.
Donna Tartt
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