There's a big anti-intellectual strain in the American south, and there always has been. We're not big on thought.
Donna TarttThere's nothing like having a sympathetic reader who asks the right questions, who understands what you're trying to achieve and only wants to make it better.
Donna TarttNot quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn't be any other way.
Donna TarttShakespearean words, foreign words, slang and dialect and made-up phrases from kids on the street corner: English has room for them all. And writers - not just literary writers, but popular writers as well - breathe air into English and keep it lively by making it their own, not by adhering to some style manual that gets handed out to college Freshmen in a composition class.
Donna Tartt