Taking on challenging proje... by Donna Tartt, an American Novelist

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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.”

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Donna Tartt

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Name: Donna Tartt

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Dec 23, 1963

Profession: Novelist

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Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.

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But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.

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There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.

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My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time.

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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.

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