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Rose Tremain
English
Novelist
Born:
Aug 2
,
1943
Any
Difficult
Me
Research
Think
Writing
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Life is not a dress rehearsal.
Rose Tremain
Life
Dress
Rehearsal
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
Spiritual
Me
Think
Minds
Drawn
More
Only
Potential
Remain
Mysterious
Mystical
Scheme
True
Perhaps
Most
True Potential
Always
Importantly
Unexplained
Any
Human
Human Beings
Realise
Which
Them
Beings
Include
Novel
Things
Fraction
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.
Rose Tremain
Reality
Looking
Big
Day-To-Day
Territory
Always
Subjects
Very
Familiar
Stories
Which
Interested
Explore
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
Me
Writing
Beginning
Everything
Tell
Must
Bland
Writers
Feel
Days
Always
Amazed
Very
Plan
Who
I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important.
Rose Tremain
Writing
Important
Think
Drawn
About
Something
Feels
Intense
Which
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.
Rose Tremain
Journey
Destination
Writing
Will
Picture
Some
Emerges
Along
Revelations
Arrive
Goes
Gradually
Going
Which
Notion
Whole
Novel
Series
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
Needs
Book
Writing
Space
Empty Space
Head
Idea
New
Empty
New Idea
Screenplays
Which
Formed
Barely
Engaged
Moment
Fully
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
Me
Own
Research
Setting
Immediate
Slowly
My Own
Potentially
Until
Period
Real
Surroundings
Any
Acquire
A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.
Rose Tremain
Me
Year
Research
Dream
Write
Takes
Years
Plan
Then
Novel
Two
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