If I'm not working, I'm not happy. That's it. That's the prerequisite for me for happiness.
Donna TarttA great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we donโt get to choose our own hearts. We canโt make ourselves want whatโs good for us or whatโs good for other people. We donโt get to choose the people we are.
Donna TarttAnd just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of color across the skyโso the space where I exist, and want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in, is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime.
Donna TarttTaking 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
Donna Tartt