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
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.
imagination ungrateful mind
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.
panic rewriting existential
The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.
lovers should
Life should be embraced like a lover.
real research 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.
criticism firsts preference
Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted 'first readers.'
fall sleep hammocks
Kept falling in and out of it [sleep] like out of a boat or a tipping hammock.
dream writing two
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.
character may pages
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.
book planning stage
In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.
dream writing data
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 with your gathering of hard data, allow yourself also to dream your idea into being.