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> [Pace is crucial. Fine writing isn't enough. Writing students can be great at producing a single page of well-crafted prose; what they sometimes lack is the ability to take the reader on a journey, with all the changes of terrain,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-tremain/pace-is-crucial-fine-writing-isn-t-enough-writing-students-can-be/)

[Rose Tremain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-tremain/)

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## More by Rose Tremain

> [I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-tremain/i-m-always-amazed-by-writers-who-tell-me-they-plan-everything-at-the/)

[Rose Tremain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-tremain/)

> [“Wasting time changes the nature of time. And the heart is stilled.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-tremain/wasting-time-changes-the-nature-of-time-and-the-heart-is-stilled/)

[Rose Tremain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-tremain/)

> [At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-tremain/at-the-moment-i-m-toying-with-a-new-idea-for-a-book-but-fully-engaged/)

[Rose Tremain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-tremain/)

> [The imagination conjures gifts; what the ungrateful, unsentimental part of the mind has to do is to unwrap them, find fault with them, see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-tremain/the-imagination-conjures-gifts-what-the-ungrateful-unsentimental-part/)

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> [“Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-tremain/acceptance-she-thinks-is-the-harshest-lesson-life-teaches-and-the-one/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-tremain/there-is-something-about-the-unexpected-that-moves-us-as-if-the-whole/)

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> [When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-tremain/when-you-ve-finished-a-piece-of-work-you-ve-had-a-kind-of-love-affair/)

[Rose Tremain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-tremain/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-tremain/my-name-is-lev-said-lev-my-name-is-lydia-said-the-woman-and-they/)

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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-tremain/in-the-planning-stage-of-a-book-don-t-plan-the-ending-it-has-to-be/)

[Rose Tremain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-tremain/)

> [“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”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-tremain/inevitably-we-make-a-small-world-in-the-midst-of-a-big-one-for-a/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-tremain/and-pao-yi-was-reminded-that-the-inclination-of-almost-every-living/)

[Rose Tremain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-tremain/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-tremain/never-be-satisfied-with-a-first-draft-in-fact-never-be-satisfied-with/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-tremain/lev-took-out-a-cigarette-and-stuck-it-between-his-lips-and-the-woman/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-tremain/any-setting-can-potentially-acquire-this-vividness-it-slowly-arrives/)

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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 to enhance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-tremain/forget-the-boring-old-dictum-write-about-what-you-know-instead-seek/)

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