“I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder ...” — Donna Tartt Quote

“I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.”

“...spent the summer drowsing on his rooftop deck, smoking cigarettes, reading Proust, dreaming about death and indolence and beauty and time.”

“Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.”

“I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.”

“So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter.”

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

“I was drawn to journalism as a young guy because I felt like there was some purpose to it, not always but sometimes.”

“I will not be drawn to building relations with the Syrian regime, which does not want me.”

“That's what I'm drawn to: playing characters that are completely different.”

“I've always been drawn to the ocean.”

“I was never drawn just into fashion. I was drawn into it because I am really interested in serving women and providing women with solutions, trying to figure out what we need and why we need that and why we wear stuff, how it makes us feel. That was always my starting point, you know.”

“The larger-than-life thing is definitely what I'm after. I've always drawn dark stories. Occasionally, I'll try a perfect hero, but it's a real stretch for me. I like 'em warts and all, and obsessive and weird.”