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This Much I Know

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10 pages, Unknown Binding

Published November 16, 2003

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Donna Tartt

42 books39.8k followers
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.

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96 reviews130 followers
February 19, 2023
It's a tiny piece of art with a huge message. I adore her intelligent approach to writing and life. Highly recommended 🖤
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December 21, 2020
"If you're travelling alone, as I often do, and you have a dog with you, France is a wonderful place to go."


Well, if it wasn't clear before, there is no doubt now that Donna Tartt is a dog person.
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531 reviews
February 26, 2024
I have never seen Sex and the City.
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122 reviews
March 25, 2023
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I love this woman. I will gladly read everything she produces.
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January 27, 2026
“to be an artist of any sort, one has to be stubborn…”

“reading is what makes me happiest.”

“the good things don’t help and the bad things still hurt.”

“i stop and speak to dogs-dogs often stop and speak to you.”

“i try to be disciplined, but by nature, i’m not very.”

i adore donna tartt🫀🫀
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64 reviews
October 26, 2020
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
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65 reviews3 followers
September 22, 2021
"i try to be disciplined, but by nature, im not very"
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March 16, 2024
“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.”
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1,103 reviews12 followers
November 7, 2024
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.
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32 reviews1 follower
October 10, 2025
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I need her to come back, I love how she sees life
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51 reviews15 followers
February 18, 2024
"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."
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158 reviews
January 23, 2023
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."
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32 reviews
December 18, 2022
Donna Tartt s'arrête dans la rue pour parler aux chiens <3
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154 reviews
May 12, 2023
Another interesting, insightful article by Donna Tartt.
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27 reviews2 followers
September 10, 2023
"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."
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624 reviews
January 7, 2024
An interesting article - I’m not sure what the reasoning behind writing it was though.
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407 reviews3 followers
August 28, 2024
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.
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January 1, 2025
beautiful. i also have never seen Sex and the City
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19 reviews1 follower
January 3, 2025
Little article from the author that wrote two of my favorite books, I want to read everything she’s written. I enjoyed this peek into her life
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36 reviews
March 7, 2025
"I'll tell you why, kid. The good things don't help and the bad things still hurt."

смачно.
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53 reviews
March 10, 2025
I love the honesty and spontaneity of this, it felt personal and lovely. I genuinely love Donna Tartt so much you don't understand!!!! 😭
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