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.
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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.Rose Tremain
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.
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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.
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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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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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Life is not a dress rehearsal.
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