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Rose Tremain has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually…
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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…
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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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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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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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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 can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.
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Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put…
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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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When an idea comes, spend silent time with it. Remember Keats's idea of Negative Capability and Kipling's advice to "drift, wait, and…
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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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So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had…
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If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.
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Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me…
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Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a…
— Magic Johnson
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If you fall in love with an idea, you won't see the merits of alternative approaches-and will probably miss an opportunity or…
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Wherever you go, your mind will go with you. Your knowledge will go with you, your prejudices will go with you, your…
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Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.
— Frederic Raphael
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And yet, we know how fatal the pursuit of liveliness may be: it may result in ... tiresome acrobatics. ... Flashy effects…
— Katherine Anne Porter
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If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.
— David Belasco
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One key to entrepreneurial success is to get a great group of people around you who believe in your idea.
— Richard Branson
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