Rose Tremain

When an idea comes, spend silent time with it. Remember Keats's idea of Negative Capability and Kipling's advice to "drift, wait, and…

— Rose Tremain

“She would, on the birthday of Christ, allow herself what she called "an extra helping of prayer." At the time of the…

— Rose Tremain

“Felt astonishment at the idea of that much leisure that much spare cash flying away into bottles and vials.”

— Rose Tremain

“He’d never seen a rain quite like this so gentle that it seemed barely to fall yet slowly laid its shine on…

— Rose Tremain

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,…

— Rose Tremain

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

— Rose Tremain

Kept falling in and out of it [sleep] like out of a boat or a tipping hammock.

— Rose Tremain

“...together we shall see what is in this great kingdom of Denmark, and on this journey you will put from you all…

— Rose Tremain

“There's the trick: to find the way - whether forwards or back - to what we long to be.”

— Rose Tremain

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

— Rose Tremain

“The world is packed with mistery. We tend to forget this, but itțs still packed tight with it, like water in stone.”

— Rose Tremain

And she did not want him to think her quite mad, only a little unique, only containing within her just that measure…

— Rose Tremain

Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the…

— Rose Tremain

“The Koran teaches that deeds of unselfish kindness will be rewarded in heaven. I’ve given you precious food and for this unselfishness…

— Rose Tremain

“When you’re old nobody touches you nobody listens to you—not in this bloody country.so that’s what I do. I touch and I…

— Rose Tremain

Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put…

— Rose Tremain

Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually…

— Rose Tremain

“We may avoid shame if we choose, for shame seldom takes us unawares but has its warning cry, and we can hear…

— Rose Tremain

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

— Rose Tremain

“Lev,' said Ruby, 'when I was younger, I always told people the things I thought they wanted to hear. But I don't…

— Rose Tremain

“HE felt so tired that he felt almost like lying down there where he was in the warm sunshine just waiting until…

— Rose Tremain

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

— Rose Tremain

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

— Rose Tremain

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

— Rose Tremain

Respect the way characters may change once they've got 50 pages of life in them. Revisit your plan at this stage and…

— Rose Tremain