"I'm not very interested in charting a day-to-day……" — Rose Tremain
"I'm not very interested in charting a day-to-day familiar reality. I'm always looking for territory in which to explore the BIG subjects, the life-or-death stories."
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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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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up…
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I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own…
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The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking…
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We are always looking to the future; the present does not satisfy us. Our ideal, whatever it may be, lies…
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As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell…
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The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see,…
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Sometimes I'm not even satisfied when I got 6 points and 22 rebounds, because I'm always looking to do more.
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I'm just always looking forwards. I spend very little time, looking backwards.
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