Writer Quotes by Rose Tremain

9 Writer quotes by Rose Tremain

These nine concise lines from Rose Tremain capture the gentle empathy and vivid detail that mark her storytelling. Even with a modest count, the selections serve as a pleasant entry point into her work.

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

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The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.

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The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time…

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I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important.

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I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very…

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Writing is a strange synthesis between the two parts of your mind: the analytical side and the side that knows nothing at…

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Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's…

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At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea…

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Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know.' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going…

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

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“Wasting time changes the nature of time. And the heart is stilled.”

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The imagination conjures gifts; what the ungrateful, unsentimental part of the mind has to do is to unwrap them, find fault with them, see…

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“Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn.”

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There is something about the unexpected that moves us. As if the whole of existence is paid for in some way, except for that…

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When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.

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“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…

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

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“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”

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“...and Pao Yi was reminded that the inclination of almost every living thing is to cling on, to remain where it is, but that…

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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…

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“Lev took out a cigarette and stuck it between his lips and the woman sitting next to him a plump contained person with moles…

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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…

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