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.
From Donna Tartt
Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.
My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time.
It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.
Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.
Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.
I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.
But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
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.
You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it.
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