At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
The imagination conjures gifts; what the ungrateful, unsentimental part of the mind has to do is to unwrap them, find fault with them, see… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
“Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn.” — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
There is something about the unexpected that moves us. As if the whole of existence is paid for in some way, except for that… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it. — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
“My name is Lev," said Lev. "My name is Lydia," said the woman. And they shook hands, Lev's hand holding the scrunched-up kerchief and… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Inevitably we make a small world in the midst of a big one. For a small world is all we know how to make.’p46” — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
“...and Pao Yi was reminded that the inclination of almost every living thing is to cling on, to remain where it is, but that… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
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… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
