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Rose Tremain quotes

English Novelist August 2, 1943

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Rose Tremain quote: "When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love..."
When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it. Rose Tremain
Rose Tremain quote: "Life is not a dress rehearsal."
Life is not a dress rehearsal. Rose Tremain
Rose Tremain quote: "Life should be embraced like a lover."
Life should be embraced like a lover. Rose Tremain
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. Rose Tremain
HE felt so tired that he felt almost like lying down there where he was in the warm sunshine just waiting until someone showed up but then he thought he did not know long a day was a summer day in England and how soon afternoon and evening would arrive and he didn’t want to find himself on the street when it got dark. Rose Tremain
Rose Tremain quote: "I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do..."
I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel. Rose Tremain
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… Rose Tremain
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. Rose Tremain
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. Rose Tremain
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. Rose Tremain
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. Rose Tremain
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. Rose Tremain
Rose Tremain quote: "A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and..."
A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write. Rose Tremain
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. 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. Rose Tremain

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