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Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand. ↗

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. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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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. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form. ↗

— Allen Tate

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In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem. ↗

— Allen Tate

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Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation. ↗

— Allen Tate

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