Rose Tremain
Rose Tremain
Rose Tremain CBE FRSLis an English author, and current Chancellor of the University of East Anglia...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 August 1943
Rose Tremain quotes about
inspirational life leadership
Life is not a dress rehearsal.
moving writing journey
Pace is crucial. Fine writing isn't enough. Writing students can be great at producing a single page of well-crafted prose; what they sometimes lack is the ability to take the reader on a journey, with all the changes of terrain, speed and mood that a long journey involves. Again, I find that looking at films can help. Most novels will want to move close, linger, move back, move on, in pretty cinematic ways.
book writing ideas
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.
rehabilitation stories unfolding
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.
character way difficult
I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.
dream believe character
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.
dream writing years
A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.
writing people details
Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak.
thinking unique mad
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.
thinking research territory
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.
pieces kind affair
When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.
moving way unexpected
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.