Donna Tartt MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Donna Tartt? Donna Tartt is an INTJ personality type in MBTI, 5w4 - sp/sx - 541 in Enneagram, RCOEI in Big 5, IEI in Socionics.
- How did you know when you wanted to end the book? "I knew it from the very beginning. This is very much the book I set out to write when I set out ten years ago. This is how I envisioned it. I wanted it to end in a fairly uncertain place. I didn't want to tie things up too neatly. I don't think it's really the business of a writer today, to tie up narrative too neatly and deliver it in a box. And to lead the killer away in handcuffs. Do you know what I am saying? It's too much about television and movies and it's too much a kind of narrative that we are inundated with. It's a writer's business now, to work at the edges of narrative and different kinds of experience, which is just as legitimate but not as stylized and ritualized as the kinds of things we all have been used to for many, many years." - Could you reveal the first idea you had in mind when you started writing ... ? "It’s impossible to say – with all my novels there were many different inspirations coming together over quite a long period of time, although I do know that for me it often starts with place, and with mood ... I can’t really say what was the absolute first inspiration for any of my novels. Many different elements combined unexpectedly in just the right way, and that’s true of the novel I’m working on now, as well." - How does the study of past inform your discipline and your writing? "The modern tendency is to bear down narrowly on one small area, but to study the classical world is to study art, architecture, philosophy, mythology, aesthetics, poetry, stagecraft, government. There’s nothing like Plato to teach you to spot a sophist or a demagogue. And even I got sick of ruminating about the Antonine Plague and the Plague of Athens during the pandemic." Totally devoid of Si. You will also notice the intense data-gathering and in-depth quality of Ni on her second and third answer. I saw an argument about the "details" in her novels to support ISTJ vote, but remember that she spends 10 years for each book. That's enough time to complete her books with as many details as she wishes. (Also, Henry and Harriett are pretty much self-inserts, both of them are INTJs.)
Biography
Donna Louise Tartt (born December 23, 1963) is an American writer, the author of the novels The Secret History (1992), The Little Friend (2002), and The Goldfinch (2013). Tartt won the WH Smith Literary Award for The Little Friend in 2003 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Goldfinch in 2014.
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