Rose Tremain
Novelist
1943-08-02
Quotes by Rose Tremain
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Wasting time changes the nature of time. And the heart is stilled.
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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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Hope is a strange commodity. It is an opiate. We swear we have relinquished it and, lo, here comes a day when, all unannounced, our enslavement to it returns.
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Hope is a strange commodity. It is an opiate. We swear we have relinquished it and, lo, here comes a day when, all unannounced, our enslavement to it returns.
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Wasting time changes the nature of time. And the heart is stilled.
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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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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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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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