"I think I'm drawn to writing about something……" — Rose Tremain
"I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important."
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24 Quotes by Rose Tremain
Rose Tremain has 24 quotes on this site.
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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 have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn…
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In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.
— Charles Babbage
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Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right…
— Charles Babbage
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Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to…
— Richard Bach
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We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion…
— Alfred Adler
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I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.
— Kathryn Bigelow
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I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently.
— Kathryn Bigelow
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I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict…
— Emily Blunt
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I'm drawn to the path of least resistance.
— Jeff Bridges
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While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in…
— Geraldine Brooks
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Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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