“There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consume...” — Donna Tartt Quote

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.

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.

What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star?

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

I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I'm a huge collector of memorabilia. I've got Davy Crockett's bullet pouch. I've got Colonel Travis's belt.

When you are challenging for the world title, you've got to go into the lion's den to try and rip that belt away from the champion.

I have had the best boxing education with more than 350 fights under my belt.

You know, once you have the belt you want to be less active, fighting once a year.

To have that opportunity to direct under my belt was fantastic, so I'm glad I did it.