Rose Tremain

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

— Rose Tremain

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...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. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#music

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

— Rose Tremain

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

— Rose Tremain

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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

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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 book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet. ↗

— Rose Tremain

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

— Rose Tremain

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I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important. ↗

— Rose Tremain

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Life is not a dress rehearsal. ↗

— Rose Tremain

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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. ↗

— Rose Tremain

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