Top 16 Quotes by Rose Tremain

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.

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

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.

Life should be embraced like a lover.

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.

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.

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

I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.