Top 49 Rose Tremain Quotes
#1. Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.
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#2. Music is so important in a human life. It finds a space inside us that nothing else touches.' Gustav
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#3. 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.
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#4. How could such a picture be in a national newspaper The model had ridiculous breasts the size of pumpkins and lips fat and wet and all that she was wearing was a spangled G-string.
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#5. I have been held in an embrace so strong by the journey that I find I have relinquished the will to arrive.
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#6. Felt astonishment at the idea of that much leisure that much spare cash flying away into bottles and vials.
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#7. I am not in search of friends and confidences. I'm concentrating on being. I live each hour, one by one. My mind is quiet and still. I am no longer waiting for time to pass
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#8. So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had the right sources and the necessary time for the initial research.
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#9. He appears to Paul like an old man, choking up with half-remembered things, as though there were a great struggle going on inside him to find, in among all that was half-remembered, those moments which had been absolute and true.
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#10. 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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#11. River on the ferry, Billy swam beside it, and Harriet remembered the donkey and the donkey cart of her first
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#12. 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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#13. Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn.
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#14. When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.
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#15. Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted 'first readers.'
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#16. 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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#17. Lev,' said Ruby, 'when I was younger, I always told people the things I thought they wanted to hear. But I don't do that anymore. It's a cruel thing to do. So I can't say now that you will be free of it ( grief) and move on, because I just don't know the answer.
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#18. He'd never seen a rain quite like this so gentle that it seemed barely to fall yet slowly laid its shine on the bay leaves and hydrangea flowers ...
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#19. Together we shall see what is in this great kingdom of Denmark, and on this journey you will put from you all the sufferings of recent years and regain your joy in the world.
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#20. At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet.
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#21. Inevitably we make a small world in the midst of a big one. For a small world is all we know how to make.'p46
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#22. Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female.
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#23. We have to become the people we always should have been.
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#24. I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important.
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#25. Human society is ninety percent muck that won't disperse to the appropriate location that's why I chose the profession of plumber.
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#26. The imagination conjures gifts; what the ungrateful, unsentimental part of the mind has to do is to unwrap them, find fault with them, see them for what they are and then alter them.
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#27. In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.
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#28. The Koran teaches that deeds of unselfish kindness will be rewarded in heaven. I've given you precious food and for this unselfishness I will find reward. But now I shall go further. I am going to give you work.
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#29. The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place.
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#30. When you're old nobody touches you nobody listens to you - not in this bloody country.so that's what I do. I touch and I listen.
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#31. I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.
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#32. Respect the way characters may change once they've got 50 pages of life in them. Revisit your plan at this stage and see whether certain things have to be altered to take account of these changes.
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#33. Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak.
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#34. And it is silence that she hears, the silence of lost years that have no voice left in them.
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#35. Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings.
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#36. I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.
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#37. There's the trick: to find the way - whether forwards or back - to what we long to be.
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#38. Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel.
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#39. I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture - which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along.
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#40. Writing is a strange synthesis between the two parts of your mind: the analytical side and the side that knows nothing at all, and you have to allow the dreaming side free rein.
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#41. Kept falling in and out of it [sleep] like out of a boat or a tipping hammock.
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#42. The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.
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#43. I did have a beautiful life. It ended early, that's all.
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#44. We may avoid shame if we choose, for shame seldom takes us unawares but has its warning cry, and we can hear that cry as clearly as we can hear the coming of the north wind ... The man lying in the mud hadn't heard the coming of the north wind.
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#46. A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.
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#48. What mattered was writing it: the act of words.
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#49. There is something about the unexpected that moves us. As if the whole of existance is paid for in some way, except for that one moment, witch is free.
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