“I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that'...” — Donna Tartt Quote

I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.

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.

Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time.

I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we’re not always so glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open. And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch.

Innocence is always unsuspicious.

I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.

Going on reality TV is a shrewd business move now: I miss the innocence of how it used to be.

Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.

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