A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.
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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
There is something about the unexpected that moves us. As if the whole of existence is paid for in some way, except for that one moment, which is free.
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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.
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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.
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When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.
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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
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