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Rose Tremain Quotes: "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."

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.



Rose Tremain Quotes: "In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it."

In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.




Rose Tremain Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all."

The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.




Rose Tremain Quotes: "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."

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.



Rose Tremain Quotes: "Life is not a dress rehearsal."

Life is not a dress rehearsal.



Rose Tremain Quotes: "When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it."

When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.




Rose Tremain Quotes: "I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel."

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.



Rose Tremain Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Kept falling in and out of it [sleep] like out of a boat or a tipping hammock."

Kept falling in and out of it [sleep] like out of a boat or a tipping hammock.



Rose Tremain Quotes: "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."

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.



Rose Tremain Quotes: "Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak."

Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak.




Rose Tremain Quotes: "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."

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.



Rose Tremain Quotes: "Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted "first readers"."

Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted "first readers".



Rose Tremain Quotes: "Life should be embraced like a lover."

Life should be embraced like a lover.



Rose Tremain Quotes: "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."

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.



Rose Tremain Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "There is something about the unexpected that moves us. As if the whole of existence is paid for in some way, except for that one moment, which is free."

There is something about the unexpected that moves us. As if the whole of existence is paid for in some way, except for that one moment, which is free.



Rose Tremain Quotes: "A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write."

A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.



Rose Tremain Quotes: "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."

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.



Rose Tremain Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Hope is a strange commodity. It is an opiate. We swear we have relinquished it and, lo, here comes a day when, all unannounced, our enslavement to it returns."

Hope is a strange commodity. It is an opiate. We swear we have relinquished it and, lo, here comes a day when, all unannounced, our enslavement to it returns.



Rose Tremain Quotes: "Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn."

Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn.



Rose Tremain Quotes: "There's the trick: to find the way - whether forwards or back - to what we long to be."

There's the trick: to find the way - whether forwards or back - to what we long to be.



Rose Tremain Quotes: "And it is silence that she hears, the silence of lost years that have no voice left in them."

And it is silence that she hears, the silence of lost years that have no voice left in them.



Rose Tremain Quotes: "Wasting time changes the nature of time. And the heart is stilled."

Wasting time changes the nature of time. And the heart is stilled.