When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is paint...
DONNA TARTT What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for it...
DONNA TARTT What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad c...
DONNA TARTT Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meado...
DONNA TARTT But how,” said Charles, who was close to tears, “how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murde...
DONNA TARTT But does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, even the happiest of us,...
DONNA TARTT There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty - unless she is wed to something more mea...
DONNA TARTT The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are s...
DONNA TARTT I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of ...
DONNA TARTT Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.
DONNA TARTT It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we qu...
DONNA TARTT My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many ...
DONNA TARTT The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different ...
DONNA TARTT And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space b...
DONNA TARTT To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to ...
DONNA TARTT On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on thei...
DONNA TARTT And I'm hoping there's some larger truth about suffering here, or at least my understanding of it - ...
DONNA TARTT But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves...
DONNA TARTT ...as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a pri...
DONNA TARTT I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very ...
DONNA TARTT —if a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see, and think, and feel, y...
DONNA TARTT That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (me...
DONNA TARTT It was a myth you couldn't function on opiates: shooting up was one thing but for someone like me-ju...
DONNA TARTT Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.
DONNA TARTT It's not as if we're running a hospital for sick children down here, let's put it that way. Where's ...
DONNA TARTT The shame that tormented me was all the more corrosive for having no very clear origin: I didn't kno...
DONNA TARTT The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.
DONNA TARTT Then there’s the business of standardized tests. Henry refused to take the SATs - he’d probably ...
DONNA TARTT Everything was hysterically funny, even the playground slide was smiling at us, and at some point, d...
DONNA TARTT Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time...
DONNA TARTT The little white bundle—toddling dutifully down the hall to the front door—froze. Then a high-pi...
DONNA TARTT [English] fails me utterly when I attempt to describe what I love about Greek, that language innocen...
DONNA TARTT Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.
DONNA TARTT ... I was disturbed by how many of my classmates disliked Thoreau, railed against him even, as if he...
DONNA TARTT They were playing old Bob Dylan, more than perfect for narrow Village streets close to Christmas and...
DONNA TARTT You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own si...
DONNA TARTT Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, on...
DONNA TARTT «La gente muore, questo è un dato di fatto» diceva la mamma. «Ma il modo in cui perdiamo le cose...
DONNA TARTT You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for...
DONNA TARTT Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.
DONNA TARTT A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hea...
DONNA TARTT Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exis...
DONNA TARTT Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a li...
DONNA TARTT Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.
DONNA TARTT I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and part...
DONNA TARTT Because--isn't it drilled into us constantly, from childhood on, an unquestioned platitude in the cu...
DONNA TARTT When we are sad—at least I am like this—it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to th...
DONNA TARTT And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space b...
DONNA TARTT Who cares? If he is good to you? None of us ever find enough kindness in the world, do we?
DONNA TARTT We are so customed to disguise ourselves to others that, in the end, we become disguised to ourselve...
DONNA TARTT Who was it that said that coincidence was just God’s way of remaining anonymous?
DONNA TARTT We looked at each other. And it occurred to me that despite his faults, which were numerous and spec...
DONNA TARTT To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard a...
DONNA TARTT Every new event—everything I did for the rest of my life—would only separate us more and more: d...
DONNA TARTT Whatever teaches us to talk to ourselves is important: whatever teaches us to sing ourselves out of ...
DONNA TARTT But depression wasn't the word. This was a plunge encompassing sorrow and revulsion far beyond the p...
DONNA TARTT And as much as I’d like to believe there’s a truth beyond illusion, I’ve come to believe that ...
DONNA TARTT Sometimes it's about playing a poor hand well.
DONNA TARTT And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for t...
DONNA TARTT Because I don’t care what anyone says or how often or winningly they say it: no one will ever, eve...
DONNA TARTT When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.
DONNA TARTT Well—I have to say I personally have never drawn such a sharp line between ‘good’ and ‘bad�...
DONNA TARTT I look at the blanked-out faces of the other passengers--hoisting their briefcases, their backpacks,...
DONNA TARTT Grown children (an oxymoron, I realize) veer instinctively to extremes: the young scholar is much mo...
DONNA TARTT His warmth, which seemed to presume upon some happy old intimacy we did not share, had thrown me int...
DONNA TARTT I was confused by this sudden glare of attention; it was as if the characters in a favorite painting...
DONNA TARTT I am gifted at blending myself into any given milieu—you've never seen such a typical California t...
DONNA TARTT It seemed my whole
life was composed of these disjointed
fractions of time, hanging around...
DONNA TARTT Mais, vrai, J'ai trop pleure! Les aubes sont navrantes. What a sad and beautiful line that is. I'd a...
DONNA TARTT When we are sad...it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to things that don't change.
DONNA TARTT But, if I dare say it, it wasn't until I had helped kill a man that I realized how elusive and compl...
DONNA TARTT Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your...
DONNA TARTT Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.
DONNA TARTT She was right: school was lonely. The eighteen and nineteen year olds didn't socialize with the youn...
DONNA TARTT They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up ...
DONNA TARTT Are you happy here?" I said at last.
He considered this for a moment. "Not particularly," he sa...
DONNA TARTT Argentina. The word itself had lost little of its power to startle and had, due to my ignoran...
DONNA TARTT Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is, ...
DONNA TARTT We don't like to admit it, but the idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people s...
DONNA TARTT After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great.
DONNA TARTT It does not do to be frightened of things about which you know nothing.
DONNA TARTT Thank God for YouTube. Every Thanksgiving, I'm bombarded with 'Turkey Lurkey Time.'
DONNA MCKECHNIE You really have to love the work. You can't look for stardom. That's a by-product.
DONNA MILLS I truly believe that philanthropy and commerce can work together.
DONNA KARAN Voting shouldn't be a challenge. It should be as easy and accessible as possible. We shouldn'...
DONNA BRAZILE The grand jury system - not just in Ferguson, but nationwide - needs a hard look. Millions feel that...
DONNA BRAZILE The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort.
DONNA LEON I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and bu...
DONNA MILLS It's so difficult. Sometimes if I have dessert, I think, 'Well, I blew it.' That's s...
DONNA DIXON But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and...
DONNA SHALALA The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss ...
DONNA LEON Power is getting things done without having to demonstrate that you can bulldoze it through. I'm...
DONNA EDWARDS In modern politics, polls often serve as the canary in the mine - an early warning signal of danger ...
DONNA BRAZILE If you rely on the media for your information, to educate yourself about the candidates and what iss...
DONNA BRAZILE I think a lot of mothers are doing as I am: starting up their own ventures as their children grow ol...
DONNA AIR Placing limits on carbon pollution from power plants is about ensuring that we have clean air to bre...
DONNA BRAZILE If I become like you, then how can I live with all the things I've done?” - X-10
DONNA GALANTI Forty pictures I was in, and all I remember is 'What kind of bra will you be wearing today, hone...
DONNA REED We are all One. The beauty in one person is shared by all. The life path of one individual blesses e...
DONNA GODDARD Don’t feel bad about feeling bad. Don’t be frightened of feeling afraid. Don’t be angry about ...
DONNA GODDARD Courage is the starting point of everything good. To love another is to automatically feed the fire ...
DONNA GODDARD Guys always think tears are a sign of weakness. They’re a sign of FRUSTRATION. She’s only crying...
DONNA BARR It is true that you may occasionally overhear a mother say
Children must have their naps,
It...
DONNA EVLETH "Bread that this house may never know hunger, salt that life may always have flavor."
DONNA REED We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there i...
DONNA ROBERTS We do not engage in idle or intentional gossip which undermines someone else's integrity or which sp...
DONNA GODDARD A government of, by, and for the people requires that people talk to people, that we can agree to di...
DONNA BRAZILE At the same time that Donald Trump was facing a federal discrimination lawsuit for refusing to rent ...
DONNA BRAZILE Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the ...
DONNA BRAZILE I grew up in the once segregated South. I experienced forced integration during my formative school ...
DONNA BRAZILE I thought acknowledging praise meant you were arrogant, but I've learned that knowing your stren...
DONNA BRAZILE Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!
DONNA KARAN Originally, back in 1992, DKNY started because I couldn't find a pair of jeans. I also wanted to...
DONNA KARAN My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever...
DONNA MILLS Men don't wear high heels, and they don't make allowances for women who do. Tottering down t...
DONNA BRAZILE If I weren't doing what I'm doing today... I'd be traveling around the world on the back...
DONNA KARAN Age and size are only numbers. It's the attitude you bring to clothes that make the difference.
DONNA KARAN I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.
DONNA BRAZILE Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wage...
DONNA BRAZILE I love Nautilus and stretching. The results are immediate, and that gives me the motivation to conti...
DONNA DIXON After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.
DONNA RICE Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way.
DONNA KARAN If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I...
DONNA MILLS You can turn every ugly and damaging drama into a genuine blessing by seeing it differently. No one ...
DONNA GODDARD When I first walked into 54 Below, I had this kind of deja vu experience and tried to imagine what t...
DONNA MCKECHNIE Helping the poor doesn't mean redistributing the wealth. It means removing the breaks that give ...
DONNA BRAZILE In Pope Francis, I see a leader who lives every day in the image of Jesus. Under his guidance, the c...
DONNA BRAZILE I met Hillary Clinton when I was a young lady working as an intern, and I can tell you she's bee...
DONNA BRAZILE What you really remember at the beginning was that you have to throw a budget together. We made some...
DONNA SHALALA Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty p...
DONNA RICE It has always been important to me to be a creative artist, not to be a star, not to be rich, not to...
DONNA MCKECHNIE On behalf of everyone at the DNC, we want to offer a deep and sincere apology to Senator Sanders, hi...
DONNA BRAZILE Although I'd first seen Senator Hart in Aspen, Colorado, at a New Year's Day party in 1987, ...
DONNA RICE The law is only our best approximation of justice, and the law needs constant revision.
DONNA BRAZILE If you're a Supreme Court justice, the American people have elevated you to one of the highest o...
DONNA BRAZILE The two most painful things in my life are arthritis and divorce.
DONNA MCKECHNIE The walk from Selma to Montgomery that turned into Bloody Sunday leaves us with a strong reminder of...
DONNA BRAZILE I'm involved with a baroque opera company here in Italy. I write some of their booklet material,...
DONNA LEON We can be thankful President Barack Obama is taking aim at one of the prime causes of climate change...
DONNA BRAZILE My message is - keep moving. If you do, you'll keep arthritis at bay.
DONNA MILLS I always thought I should have been a better mother.
DONNA KARAN My daughter Gabby very kindly once said that she thinks I was a better mother because I was doing a ...
DONNA KARAN Our public portrayal of fathers has shifted during my life. TV fathers have 'evolved' from r...
DONNA BRAZILE If we become aware that someone is sending thoughts of ill will in our direction, we do not argue wi...
DONNA GODDARD We may talk lightly but never carelessly. We keep at bay the flow of common, ignorant thought which ...
DONNA GODDARD Whenever possible, choose peace.
DONNA GODDARD To be creative, first we must be generous. Then we must have a quiet, indomitable belief in our own ...
DONNA GODDARD Every wonderful quality "in" someone is waiting to be recognized in all of life's great symphony.
DONNA GODDARD The desire for connection with the Divine and our formless inner self is at the foundation of all de...
DONNA GODDARD Fear cannot capture us, criticism cannot harm us, and pride cannot make us fall.
DONNA GODDARD A partner to share the ups and downs with. Honor and strength, and knowing you're stronger together ...
DONNA ALWARD A balanced inner calmness radiates from a peaceful centre. It neither craves others' approval nor re...
DONNA GODDARD It is not possible to be seduced by the lure of ego-gratification or intimidated by the tyranny of i...
DONNA GODDARD Maya Angelou was the voice of three generations. Her poetry spanned our journey, chronicled our hear...
DONNA BRAZILE It is one thing to lose people you love. It is another to lose yourself. That is a greater loss.
DONNA GODDARD Women in Washington - and in positions of power anywhere - should be subjected to the same criticism...
DONNA BRAZILE I denounce Donald Trump for not denouncing the kind of vitriol, the kind of violence that he has per...
DONNA BRAZILE A white-boy attitude is 'I must exclude, denigrate, and leave behind.' They don't see it...
DONNA BRAZILE Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.
DONNA KARAN Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does...
DONNA LEON The middle ground in Congress has all but disappeared. The founders intended competing principles an...
DONNA BRAZILE We march on toward the realization of the American Dream. We are not diverted by those who would den...
DONNA BRAZILE Obama has a strong record on immigration enforcement, outdoing both Republican and Democratic predec...
DONNA BRAZILE I hope more people decide to become organ donors.
DONNA REED This apology is not just to Bernie Sanders. It is to donors. It is to anyone and everyone that clear...
DONNA BRAZILE I've been involved with blood donation since the 1980s because there is a critical need.
DONNA REED If you want your checkbook to follow your heart, make a donation to those doing work you support.
DONNA BRAZILE I think too many people found that by waiting, maybe the prime locations they wanted were harder to ...
DONNA ABBOTT We bought the property as much for the tree as for the Victorian house.
DONNA ABBOTT We've got quite a few ideas. We still have a Land Rover in Australia.
DONNA ABBOTT They didn't know if he was going to live.
DONNA ABBOTT It's not like we're alone out there. There are really a lot of people doing this.
DONNA ABBOTT We used to say that Memorial Day started the season. Now, Presidents' Day is considered the start of...
DONNA ABBOTT It's like a house. Eventually things start wearing out. There's always something you can be doing.
DONNA ABBOTT We thought it would be a really good chance for us to get to know her and her to get to know us.
DONNA ABBOTT Dave had a financial plan for 10 years before it all came together.
DONNA ABBOTT God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful.
DONNA SUMMER I have always hired people of different ages. Young people and older people. People in their 70s and...
DONNA SHALALA Being on food stamps can be demeaning. Cashiers know the difference between the new plastic SNAP car...
DONNA BRAZILE When we maintain a conscious connection with Gratitude, our presence will naturally radiate a certai...
DONNA GODDARD No one remembers how the American people responded day-to-day, week-to-week, or month-to-month about...
DONNA BRAZILE We love with all our heart but we also keep our heart light and pliable. It has space. It breathes. ...
DONNA GODDARD Hurricane Katrina was the storm of the 21st century. It devastated an area the size of Great Britain...
DONNA BRAZILE We all know that an angry electorate is a voting electorate.
DONNA BRAZILE The chief stammered around and did not give me a direct answer.
DONNA MORROW I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The developm...
DONNA KARAN I'm tired of 'tone at the top.' Sometimes I wish Boards and CEOs would just stop talking and do.
DONNA BOEHME A true ethical culture reflects the better instincts of company leadership, and retaliation does the...
DONNA BOEHME Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things.
DONNA SUMMER It was at the Children's Defense Fund that I met Hillary. I was 21, feisty, and ready to fight. ...
DONNA BRAZILE Over the years, I've worked for and alongside the American Federation of Teachers and National E...
DONNA BRAZILE Democrats have pushed for equal pay for women because we know that when women succeed, America succe...
DONNA BRAZILE Our young people are out on the streets looking for parties, a place to dance, looking for a scene. ...
DONNA SHALALA Poverty is a national issue and needs a federal response. After all, U.S. federal government policie...
DONNA BRAZILE She's the epitome of a point guard already. That doesn't happen often (with a sophomore). She was gr...
DONNA NICHOLSON So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him fac...
DONNA RICE I think people involved in politics make good actors. Acting and politics both involve fooling peopl...
DONNA BRAZILE But I like to know that someone is stronger than I am. I want to be able to know that if I get tired...
DONNA SUMMER Food stamps are an investment in our future.
DONNA BRAZILE One of my favorite movies is The Little Foxes.
DONNA MILLS