Inspirational Quotes by Donna Tartt (American Novelist)

Donna Louise Tartt (b.1963) is an American novelist and author of three acclaimed novels, including her celebrated début, The Secret History. She is a highly elusive artist, and not much is known about her private life.

Born in Greenwood, Mississippi, Tartt began work on her first novel while studying creative writing at Bennington College, Vermont. In the mid-1980s, she began working on her first novel about a group of intellectual college students who form a secret murderous cult. She took eight years to complete that story. The Secret History (1992) was published when she was 28 years old. It received rave reviews from critics, and it spent 13 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, sold millions of copies, and was translated into two dozen languages.

Tartt’s subsequent works are The Little Friend (2002; WH Smith Literary Award, 2003,) and The Goldfinch (2013; Pulitzer, 2014; Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, 2014; film adaptation, 2019.)

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isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty? Those first images that crack your heart wide open and you spend the rest of your life chasing, or trying to recapture, in one way or another?
—Donna Tartt
Topics: Tolerance, Prejudice, Education

Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more repressed, then the more he needs some method of channeling the primitive impulses he’s worked so hard to subdue. Otherwise those powerful old forces will mass and strengthen until they are violent enough to break free, more violent for the delay, often strong enough to sweep the will away entirely.
—Donna Tartt
Topics: Sympathy

I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that’s not really there.
—Donna Tartt
Topics: Innocence

Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.
—Donna Tartt

Hard to put things right. You don’t often get that chance. Sometimes all you can do is not get caught.
—Donna Tartt
Topics: Envy, Jealousy, Character

Love doesn’t conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.
—Donna Tartt
Topics: Charity

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