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.
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.
lovers should
Life should be embraced like a lover.
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.
inspirational life leadership
Life is not a dress rehearsal.