8 Quotes & Sayings By Rose Tremain

Rose Tremain is the author of eleven novels, including "The Last Letter from Your Lover," "The Music Room," and "The Child in Time". Her work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. She lives in London with her husband and two children.

Hope is a strange commodity. It is an opiate. We...
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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. Rose Tremain
In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the...
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In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it. Rose Tremain
Wasting time changes the nature of time. And the heart...
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Wasting time changes the nature of time. And the heart is stilled. Rose Tremain
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And it is silence that she hears, the silence of lost years that have no voice left in them. Rose Tremain
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There's the trick: to find the way - whether forwards or back - to what we long to be. Rose Tremain
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Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn. Rose Tremain
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Life is not a dress rehearsal. Rose Tremain