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
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I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture - which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along.
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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.
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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.
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I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.
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I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important.
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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.
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.
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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.
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I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.
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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.