Donna Tartt is an American author who has achieved critical and public acclaim for her novels, which have been published in forty languages. In 2003 she received the WH Smith Literary Award for her novel, The Little Friend, which was also nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She won the Pulitzer Prize and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction for her most recent novel, The Goldfinch.
it’s a fantasy of mine that one day i will be a published author in a little bookstore celebrating the release of my book and i will get to meet donna tartt ... i often think about what i would say to her
“To be an artist of any sort, one has to be stubborn, to have a very strong inner compass. It's the hardest thing and no one can teach you. You have to know yourself.”
Chwilę mi zajęło zanim zrozumiałem że ten tekst dotyczy stricte osoby Donny Tartt, to spis rzeczy które ją określają, które chciała o sobie powiedzieć. Wzbudza sympatię, zresztą już wcześniej ją lubiłem. No i szanuję ją za to, że nawet tak krótki artykulik o stosunkowo luźnym temacie potrafiła napisać z klasą.
"Reading is what makes me happiest. I am very particular about my surroundings. When I think of poor Oscar Wilde, dying in Paris and saying, 'Either this wallpaper goes, or I do', sometimes I feel the same way."
It's like reading someone's diary but they have let you read it.
"I am very particular about my surroundings. When I think of poor Oscar Wilde, dying in Paris and saying, 'Either that wallpaper goes, or I do', sometimes I feel the same way."
"Reading is what makes me happiest."
"I try to be disciplined, but by nature, I'm not very."
"to be an artist of any sort, one has to be stubborn, to have a very strong inner compass. it's the hardest thing and no one can teach you. you have to know yourself."
I was just on Reddit, which I normally love in doses and with a lot of digression that people found The Goldfinch boring! It's top 5 for me, easily. I've read everything of hers not except the Christmas Pageant which I can't find, please help, and she's up there as favorite author with Graham Greene and Stephen King.