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Rose Tremain Quotes

The world is packed with mistery. We tend to forget this, but it?s still packed tight with it, like water in stone Picture Quote #1

I’m not very interested in charting a day-to-day familiar reality. I’m always looking for territory in which to explore the BIG subjects, the life-or-death stories Picture Quote #1

The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I’ve written, regardless of time and place Picture Quote #1

At the moment, I’m toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet Picture Quote #1

I’m always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland Picture Quote #1

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel Picture Quote #1

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Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female Picture Quote #1

Life is not a dress rehearsal Picture Quote #1

I think I’m drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important Picture Quote #1

Life should be embraced like a lover Picture Quote #1

Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you’re certain it’s as good as your finite powers can enable it to be Picture Quote #1

Writing is a strange synthesis between the two parts of your mind: the analytical side and the side that knows nothing at all, and you have to allow the dreaming side free rein Picture Quote #1

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Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings Picture Quote #1

Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak Picture Quote #1

I’m always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland Picture Quote #1

So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had the right sources and the necessary time for the initial research Picture Quote #1

There is something about the unexpected that moves us. As if the whole of existence is paid for in some way, except for that one moment, which is free Picture Quote #1

In the planning stage of a book, don’t plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it Picture Quote #1

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And she did not want him to think her quite mad, only a little unique, only containing within her just that measure of the unexpected sufficient to make her irreplaceable Picture Quote #1

When you’ve finished a piece of work you’ve had a kind of love affair with it Picture Quote #1

The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I’ve written, regardless of time and place Picture Quote #1

The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you’re not in that existential panic when you don’t have a novel at all Picture Quote #1

A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write Picture Quote #1

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The world is packed with mistery. We tend to forget this, but it?s still packed tight with it, like water in stone. (Rose Tremain Quotes) I’m not very interested in charting a day-to-day familiar reality. I’m always looking for territory in which to explore the BIG subjects, the life-or-death stories. (Rose Tremain Quotes) The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I’ve written, regardless of time and place. (Rose Tremain Quotes) At the moment, I’m toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet. (Rose Tremain Quotes) I’m always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland. (Rose Tremain Quotes) I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel (Rose Tremain Quotes) Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female (Rose Tremain Quotes) Life is not a dress rehearsal (Rose Tremain Quotes) I think I’m drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important (Rose Tremain Quotes) Life should be embraced like a lover (Rose Tremain Quotes) Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you’re certain it’s as good as your finite powers can enable it to be (Rose Tremain Quotes) Writing is a strange synthesis between the two parts of your mind: the analytical side and the side that knows nothing at all, and you have to allow the dreaming side free rein (Rose Tremain Quotes) Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings (Rose Tremain Quotes) Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak (Rose Tremain Quotes) I’m always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland (Rose Tremain Quotes) So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had the right sources and the necessary time for the initial research (Rose Tremain Quotes) There is something about the unexpected that moves us. As if the whole of existence is paid for in some way, except for that one moment, which is free (Rose Tremain Quotes) In the planning stage of a book, don’t plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it (Rose Tremain Quotes) And she did not want him to think her quite mad, only a little unique, only containing within her just that measure of the unexpected sufficient to make her irreplaceable (Rose Tremain Quotes) When you’ve finished a piece of work you’ve had a kind of love affair with it (Rose Tremain Quotes) The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I’ve written, regardless of time and place (Rose Tremain Quotes) The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you’re not in that existential panic when you don’t have a novel at all (Rose Tremain Quotes) A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write (Rose Tremain Quotes)