I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important.
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Kept falling in and out of it sleep like out of a boat or a tipping hammock.Rose Tremain
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.
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I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.
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A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.
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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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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
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