Donna Tartt Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: b. December 23, 1963
Birthday: December 23
Shakespearean 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.
source: Interview with Michael Pietsch, www.slate.com. October 11, 2013. 
topic: Kids, College, Air, Slang, College Freshmen
