Quotes from Rose Tremain

The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

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.

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.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

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.

Umut garip bir al??kanl?kt?r. Bir tür uyuÅŸturucudur. B?rakt???m?za dair yeminler ederiz, ama o da ne? Bir gün gelir, yine kölesi oluruz.

Zaten bir ÅŸey geçmiÅŸte kald??? zaman, onu ÅŸimdiki an?n gerçekliÄŸinde bir fanteziden, bir ilüzyondan farkl? k?lan ÅŸey nedir ki? Bir zamanlar yaÅŸanm?? olsa da art?k an?lar d???nda var olamaz.

Kabullenmenin hayat?n öÄŸrettiÄŸi en a??r ve en zor ders olduÄŸunu düÅŸünüyordu.

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.

We cannot shape the world according to the delights society decrees appropriate for us; we must be unconventional in our joys and find them wherever we can.

Let winter come. Let the snow fall and consume Bath in a shroud of silence. Let everything feel as bound and stifled as my heart.

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.

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?

It is merely that I have been held in an embrace so strong by the journey that I find I have relinquished the will to arrive.

He saw only that misery could be endured in the midst of misery. But set adjacent to the good fortune of others, it became far, far harder to bear.

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.

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.

HE felt so tired that he felt almost like lying down there where he was in the warm sunshine just waiting until someone showed up but then he thought he did not know long a day was a summer day in England and how soon afternoon and evening would arrive and he didn't want to find himself on the street when it got dark.

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.

Felt astonishment at the idea of that much leisure that much spare cash flying away into bottles and vials.

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.

Things are only white for a bit.' Emilie

Bilirsin biz kad?nlar?n ba?? an?larla döner; hayat?m?z boyunca yüzümüzü geçmiÅŸe dönüp geri geri yürürüz.