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. Rose Tremain Read Quote
A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write. Rose Tremain Read Quote
When you’ve finished a piece of work you’ve had a kind of love affair with it. Rose Tremain Read Quote
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. Rose Tremain Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Rose Tremain Read Quote
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. Rose Tremain Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I think I’m drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important. Rose Tremain Read Quote
