Rose Tremain
Rose Tremain
Rose Tremain CBE FRSLis an English author, and current Chancellor of the University of East Anglia...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 August 1943
Rose Tremain quotes about
beings drawn english-novelist fraction human include mysterious realise remain scheme
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.
english-novelist
I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important.
arrive emerges english-novelist goes gradually notion series
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.
amazed english-novelist writers
I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.
charting english-novelist familiar interested territory
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.
writing understanding world
Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know.' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going to enhance your understanding of the world and write about that.
dream writing data
When an idea comes, spend silent time with it. Remember Keats's idea of Negative Capability and Kipling's advice to "drift, wait, and obey." Along with your gathering of hard data, allow yourself also to dream your idea into being.
dream writing two
Writing is a strange synthesis between the two parts of your mind: the analytical side and the side that knows nothing at all, and you have to allow the dreaming side free rein.
criticism firsts preference
Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted 'first readers.'
lovers should
Life should be embraced like a lover.
panic rewriting existential
The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.
imagination ungrateful mind
The imagination conjures gifts; what the ungrateful, unsentimental part of the mind has to do is to unwrap them, find fault with them, see them for what they are and then alter them.
pieces kind affair
When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.
dream writing years
A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.