#act

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#big #enjoy #i #long #novel

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

— Donna Tartt

#character #fiction #life #me

Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#emotional #more #much #murky #observation

I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#characters #dickens #even #i #i love

The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#innate #learned #least #listening #looking

Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history. ↗

— Allen Tate

#cannot #confederate #connected #connection #dead

Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results. ↗

— Allen Tate

#men #poets #practical #results #their

'A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints' was the first real actor-actor part I did, and I hope I to do more. Action movies are fun, but I'd be happy not to do them if there are better roles. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#action movies #be happy #better #did #first

But I'm not a tough guy or a street fighter for real. I'm just an actor. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#fighter #guy #i #just #real

Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Penn to me are the two best actors of all time. I'm just glad to have the pleasure to be in an era that they're acting while I'm acting. They're probably the best actors in my mind. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#best #daniel #era #glad #i