"And she did not want him to think……" — Rose Tremain
"And she did not want him to think her quite mad, only a little unique, only containing within her just that measure of the unexpected sufficient to make her irreplaceable."
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24 Quotes by Rose Tremain
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Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people…
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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;…
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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…
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Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know.' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided…
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and…
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The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is…
— James A. Baldwin
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As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets,…
— John Desmond Bernal
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This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of…
— Annie Besant
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Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not…
— Julia Child
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Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
— Thomas More
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Knox was engaged in a theological discussion with scientist John Scott Haldane. 'In a universe containing millions of planets,' reasoned…
— Ronald Knox
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On the altar you are looking at the same thing as you saw there last night. You have not heard,…
— Saint Augustine
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Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after…
— Archimedes
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You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an…
— George Bernard Shaw
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In the case of those solids, whether of earth, or rock, which enclose on all sides and contain crystals, selenites,…
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