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Rose Tremain quotes: I did have a beautiful life. It ended early, that's all.

I did have a beautiful life. It ended early, that's all.

Rose Tremain quotes: Human society is ninety percent muck that won't disperse to the appropriate location that's why I chose the profession of plumber.

Human society is ninety percent muck that won't disperse to the appropriate location that's why I chose the profession of plumber.

Rose Tremain quotes: There's the trick: to find the way - whether forwards or back - to what we long to be.

There's the trick: to find the way - whether forwards or back - to what we long to be.

Rose Tremain quotes: Felt astonishment at the idea of that much leisure that much spare cash flying away into bottles and vials.

Felt astonishment at the idea of that much leisure that much spare cash flying away into bottles and vials.

Rose Tremain quotes: I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.

I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.

Rose Tremain quotes: I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

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

Rose Tremain quotes: When you're old nobody touches you nobody listens to you - not in this bloody country.so that's what I do. I touch and I listen.

When you're old nobody touches you nobody listens to you - not in this bloody country.so that's what I do. I touch and I listen.

Rose Tremain quotes: When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.

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

Rose Tremain quotes: Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn.

Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn.

Rose Tremain quotes: I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important.

I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important.

Rose Tremain quotes: 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.

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.

Rose Tremain quotes: Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak.

Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak.

Rose Tremain quotes: River on the ferry, Billy swam beside it, and Harriet remembered the donkey and the donkey cart of her first

River on the ferry, Billy swam beside it, and Harriet remembered the donkey and the donkey cart of her first

Rose Tremain quotes: The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.

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

Rose Tremain quotes: We have to become the people we always should have been.

We have to become the people we always should have been.

Rose Tremain quotes: Life should be embraced like a lover.

Life should be embraced like a lover.

Rose Tremain quotes: Music is so important in a human life. It finds a space inside us that nothing else touches.' Gustav

Music is so important in a human life. It finds a space inside us that nothing else touches.' Gustav

Rose Tremain quotes: Inevitably we make a small world in the midst of a big one. For a small world is all we know how to make.'p46

Inevitably we make a small world in the midst of a big one. For a small world is all we know how to make.'p46

Rose Tremain quotes: Kept falling in and out of it [sleep] like out of a boat or a tipping hammock.

Kept falling in and out of it [sleep] like out of a boat or a tipping hammock.

Rose Tremain quotes: Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted 'first readers.'

Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted 'first readers.'

Rose Tremain quotes: A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.

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

Rose Tremain quotes: And it is silence that she hears, the silence of lost years that have no voice left in them.

And it is silence that she hears, the silence of lost years that have no voice left in them.

Rose Tremain quotes: In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.

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

Rose Tremain quotes: I have been held in an embrace so strong by the journey that I find I have relinquished the will to arrive.

I have been held in an embrace so strong by the journey that I find I have relinquished the will to arrive.

Rose Tremain quotes: What mattered was writing it: the act of words.

What mattered was writing it: the act of words.

Rose Tremain quotes: He'd never seen a rain quite like this so gentle that it seemed barely to fall yet slowly laid its shine on the bay leaves and hydrangea flowers ...

He'd never seen a rain quite like this so gentle that it seemed barely to fall yet slowly laid its shine on the bay leaves and hydrangea flowers ...

Rose Tremain quotes: Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.