Quotes of Rose Tremain - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ Life should be embraced like a lover. ”

- Rose Tremain

“ Life is not a dress rehearsal. ”

- Rose Tremain

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ Life is not a dress rehearsal. ”

- Rose Tremain

“ 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. ”

- Rose Tremain

“ 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

“ Life is not a dress rehearsal. ”

- Rose Tremain

“ 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

“ Life is not a dress rehearsal. ”

- Rose Tremain

“ Life is not a dress rehearsal. ”

- Rose Tremain
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