Donna Louise Tartt is an American novelist. She wrote the novels The Secret History (1992), The Little Friend (2002), and The Goldfinch (2013), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was adapted into a 2019 film of the same name. She was included in Time magazine's 2014 "100 Most Influential People" list.
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As a writer, I think I’m more an eye than an ear - the world comes mainly in for me at the eye. So I’m glad the visuals came through for you.
On how she uses visualization in her writings in "Interview with Donna Tartt", Medium (July 13, 2015)
I’m a bit of a lone wolf…I don’t give interviews or do publicity unless I have a book out - too distracting. My desk is where the real work happens.
On her philosophy regarding interviews and publicity in "Donna Tartt on The Goldfinch, Inspiration, and the Perils of Literary Fame", Town
I don’t think it’s a good idea for a writer to psychoanalyze herself or try to explain why she writes what she writes - it’s a reductive way of looking at oneself and one’s work.
On how writers should avoid analyzing their own work in "Donna Tartt on The Goldfinch, Inspiration, and the Perils of Literary Fame", Town
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