Rose Tremain Quotes

When you’ve finished a piece of work you’ve had a kind of love affair with it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Life should be embraced like a lover.

The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you’re not in that existential panic when you don’t have a novel at all.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.