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"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."
"A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed."
"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."
"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"
"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop."
"The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small."
"The important information you need at the beginning of an issue. Like way they did the old Frank Miller Daredevil issues in the first five pages he always had to state his origins and how he got his powers."
"Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else."
"I was limply poking about in the garbage saying probably, for at that age I must still have been capable of general ideas, This is life."
Explore more quotes by 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 novels, male as well as female."
"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."
"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."
"A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write."
"I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel."
"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."
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