Books Quote 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.

— Rose Tremain

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Rose Tremain

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

— Rose Tremain

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

— Rose Tremain

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

— 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…

— Rose Tremain

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

— 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”

— Rose Tremain

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

— 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…

— Rose Tremain