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" Life is not a dress rehearsal. "
Rose Tremain
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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. "
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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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" The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all. "
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" Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female. "
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