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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So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had the right sources and the necessary time for the initial research.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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Life is not a dress rehearsal.
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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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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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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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