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Category: Rose Tremain

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

There’s the trick: to find the way – whether forwards or back – to what we long to be.

And it is silence that she hears, the silence of lost years that have no voice left in them.

Wasting time changes the nature of time. And the heart is stilled.

In the planning stage of a book, don’t plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.

endings, planning, writing

Hope is a strange commodity. It is an opiate. We swear we have relinquished it and, lo, here comes a day when, all unannounced, our enslavement to it returns.

In the planning stage of a book, don’t plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.

endings, planning, writing

Hope is a strange commodity. It is an opiate. We swear we have relinquished it and, lo, here comes a day when, all unannounced, our enslavement to it returns.