Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak.
When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it. - Rose Tremain
When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.
- 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 … - 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 …
Life is not a dress rehearsal. - Rose Tremain
Life is not a dress rehearsal.
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
In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.
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 … - Rose Tremain
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 …
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 no… - 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 no…
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 w… - Rose Tremain
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 w…
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 fre… - Rose Tremain
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 fre…
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 wit… - 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 wit…
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