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Write Quotes by Rose Tremain
- Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak.
- 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 your…
- A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.
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