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And it is silence that she hears, the silence of lost years that have no voice left in them.
Rose Tremain Quotes: And it is silence that
We may avoid shame if we choose, for shame seldom takes us unawares but has its warning cry, and we can hear that cry as clearly as we can hear the coming of the north wind ... The man lying in the mud hadn't heard the coming of the north wind.
Rose Tremain Quotes: We may avoid shame if
We have to become the people we always should have been.
Rose Tremain Quotes: We have to become the
...most of what Man does, moment to moment, is for his imagined future, for the coming time, in which he will be happier than in time present.
Rose Tremain Quotes: ...most of what Man does,
Lev took out a cigarette and stuck it between his lips and the woman sitting next to him a plump contained person with moles like splashes of mud on her face said quickly "I'm sorry but there is no smoking allowed on this bus." Lev knew this had known it in advance had tried to prepare himself mentally for the long agony of it. But even an unlit cigarette was a companion -something to hold on to something that had promise in it -and all he could be bothered to do now was to nod just to show the woman that he'd heard what she'd said reassure her that he wasn't going to cause trouble because there they would have to sit for fifty hours or more side by side with their separate aches and dreams like a married couple. They would hear each other's snores and sighs smell the food and drink each had brought with them note the degree to which each was fearful or unafraid make short forays into conversation. And then later when they finally arrived in London they would probably separate with barely a word or a look walk out into a rainy morning each alone and beginning a new life. And Lev thought how all of this was odd but necessary and already told him things about the world he was traveling to a world in which he would break his back working -if only that work could be found.
Rose Tremain Quotes: Lev took out a cigarette
I am not in search of friends and confidences. I'm concentrating on being. I live each hour, one by one. My mind is quiet and still. I am no longer waiting for time to pass
Rose Tremain Quotes: I am not in search
Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.
Rose Tremain Quotes: Never be satisfied with a
Pace is crucial. Fine writing isn't enough. Writing students can be great at producing a single page of well-crafted prose; what they sometimes lack is the ability to take the reader on a journey, with all the changes of terrain, speed and mood that a long journey involves. Again, I find that looking at films can help. Most novels will want to move close, linger, move back, move on, in pretty cinematic ways.
Rose Tremain Quotes: Pace is crucial. Fine writing
Wasting time changes the nature of time. And the heart is stilled.
Rose Tremain Quotes: Wasting time changes the nature
When you're old nobody touches you nobody listens to you - not in this bloody country.so that's what I do. I touch and I listen.
Rose Tremain Quotes: When you're old nobody touches
At the age of five, Gustav Perle was certain of only one thing: he loved his mother.
Rose Tremain Quotes: At the age of five,
This is the state to which I shall aspire, where what is important to me is already mine.
Rose Tremain Quotes: This is the state to
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 Quotes: At the moment, I'm toying
Music is so important in a human life. It finds a space inside us that nothing else touches.' Gustav
Rose Tremain Quotes: Music is so important in
And he feels grateful that he has been left with this one substantial relic of all his years of service and thinks how sincerely he has deserved this. Yet he knows the world in which people deserve things or do not deserve them is passing away. Europe is at war. Fairness is now becoming a word without meaning.
Rose Tremain Quotes: And he feels grateful that
Life should be embraced like a lover.
Rose Tremain Quotes: Life should be embraced like
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 Quotes: The process of rewriting is
Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted 'first readers.'
Rose Tremain Quotes: Listen to the criticisms and
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 Quotes: Perhaps, all writers walk such
When the news of the Scottish find reached Kaniere, forty or fifty miners who had been toiling there for weeks for poor returns decided to cut their losses, buy new licences and make for Kokatahi. In the time that it took them to get to the warden's office at Hokitika and back, the Scottish strike had been talked up into a 'homeward bounder': a discovery so huge that it would change men's lives at a stroke and enable them to return home as rich men. They came up the river in pairs and groups. They
Rose Tremain Quotes: When the news of the
Inevitably we make a small world in the midst of a big one. For a small world is all we know how to make.'p46
Rose Tremain Quotes: Inevitably we make a small
The Koran teaches that deeds of unselfish kindness will be rewarded in heaven. I've given you precious food and for this unselfishness I will find reward. But now I shall go further. I am going to give you work.
Rose Tremain Quotes: The Koran teaches that deeds
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 Quotes: In the planning stage of
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 Quotes: I'm not very interested in
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 Quotes: Any setting can potentially acquire
River on the ferry, Billy swam beside it, and Harriet remembered the donkey and the donkey cart of her first
Rose Tremain Quotes: River on the ferry, Billy
He'd never seen a rain quite like this so gentle that it seemed barely to fall yet slowly laid its shine on the bay leaves and hydrangea flowers ...
Rose Tremain Quotes: He'd never seen a rain
A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.
Rose Tremain Quotes: A novel usually takes me
Writing is a strange synthesis between the two parts of your mind: the analytical side and the side that knows nothing at all, and you have to allow the dreaming side free rein.
Rose Tremain Quotes: Writing is a strange synthesis
Human society is ninety percent muck that won't disperse to the appropriate location that's why I chose the profession of plumber.
Rose Tremain Quotes: Human society is ninety percent
He fell over frequently, but he never cried, though the ice was hard, the hardest surface his bones had ever met. He taught himself to laugh instead. Laughing was a bit like crying. It was a strange convulsion; it just came from a different bit of your mind. The trick was to move the crying out of that bit and let the laughter in. And so he'd pick himself up and carry on, laughing.
Rose Tremain Quotes: He fell over frequently, but
There's the trick: to find the way - whether forwards or back - to what we long to be.
Rose Tremain Quotes: There's the trick: to find
When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.
Rose Tremain Quotes: When you've finished a piece
Together we shall see what is in this great kingdom of Denmark, and on this journey you will put from you all the sufferings of recent years and regain your joy in the world.
Rose Tremain Quotes: Together we shall see what
Life is not a dress rehearsal.
Rose Tremain Quotes: Life is not a dress
What mattered was writing it: the act of words.
Rose Tremain Quotes: What mattered was writing it:
Lev,' said Ruby, 'when I was younger, I always told people the things I thought they wanted to hear. But I don't do that anymore. It's a cruel thing to do. So I can't say now that you will be free of it ( grief) and move on, because I just don't know the answer.
Rose Tremain Quotes: Lev,' said Ruby, 'when I
He appears to Paul like an old man, choking up with half-remembered things, as though there were a great struggle going on inside him to find, in among all that was half-remembered, those moments which had been absolute and true.
Rose Tremain Quotes: He appears to Paul like
There is such fear and exhaustion in their eyes that Erich says to Roger Erdman one morning, "I find it difficult to look at them."
"I agree," says Roger. "Because it could be us on those hard benches. And that's what we're most afraid of - to look out there and see ourselves.
Rose Tremain Quotes: There is such fear and
How could such a picture be in a national newspaper The model had ridiculous breasts the size of pumpkins and lips fat and wet and all that she was wearing was a spangled G-string.
Rose Tremain Quotes: How could such a picture
Forget the boring old dictum "write about what you know." Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going to enhance your understanding of the world and write about that.
Rose Tremain Quotes: Forget the boring old dictum
For it seemed to her that to know everything about another was very hell, that marriage was a wretched state if this was what it entailed. What human soul, bared to nakedness, does not look hideous – her own included? What fool society decreed that man-and-wife (so separate and different in their experience of the world and in their very natures) should be as one?
Rose Tremain Quotes: For it seemed to her
Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn.
Rose Tremain Quotes: Acceptance, she thinks, is the
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 Quotes: I have likened writing a
The world is packed with mistery. We tend to forget this, but itțs still packed tight with it, like water in stone.
Rose Tremain Quotes: The world is packed with
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