"Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what……" — Rose Tremain
"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 understanding of the world and write about that."
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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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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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When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.
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