"When an idea comes, spend silent time with……" — Rose Tremain
"When an idea comes, spend silent time with it. Remember Keats's idea of Negative Capability and Kipling's advice to "drift, wait, and obey." Along with your gathering of hard data, allow yourself also to dream your idea into being."
—
Rose Tremain
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
24 Quotes by Rose Tremain
Rose Tremain has 24 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people…
-
Pace is crucial. Fine writing isn't enough. Writing students can be great at producing a single page of well-crafted prose;…
-
The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at…
-
Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know.' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience…
-
At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the…
-
The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless…
-
I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.
-
Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe…
-
A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.
-
Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're…
-
So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided…
-
When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.
See all 24 quotes by Rose Tremain »
More Advice Quotes
This quote is filed under Advice Quotes,
one of 5,149 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
— Arthur Ashe
-
Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
— Lucius Accius
-
If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
— Norman Ralph Augustine
-
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man;…
— Marcus Aurelius
-
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
— Marcus Aurelius
-
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
— Sri Aurobindo
-
If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they…
— Teresa of Avila
-
It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
— Roger Babson
-
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but…
— Francis Bacon
-
The worst men often give the best advice.
— Francis Bacon
-
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
— Francis Bacon
-
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there…
— Francis Bacon
See all 5,149 Advice Quotes »