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"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"
"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."
"A mansion begins with one brick. A forest begins with one tree. A harvest begins with one seed. An ocean begins with one drop. A friendship begins with one gesture. A fire begins with one spark. A revolution begins with one idea."
"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
"The first stage of any development is infancy."
"I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print."
Explore more quotes by Rose Tremain
"A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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