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• In the planning stage of a book, don’t plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.

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• When you’ve finished a piece of work you’ve had a kind of love affair with it.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 should be embraced like a lover.

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• The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you’re not in that existential panic when you don’t have a novel at all.

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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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• 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 can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

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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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• 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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• 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’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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Rose Tremain (17)

Birth:	2nd August, 1943
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Author

About

Rose Tremain was born Rosemary Jane Thomson on August 2, 1943 in London and attended Francis Holland School then Crofton Grange School from 1954 to 1961; the Sorbonne from 1961–1962; and graduated from the University of East Anglia in 1965, where she taught creative writing from 1988 to 1995.

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