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Rose Tremain

"A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write."

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"A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write."

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"What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited only by what you can dream."

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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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"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."
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"Life is not a dress rehearsal."
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"I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important."
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"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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"Life should be embraced like a lover."
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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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"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."
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"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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"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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