“ 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
“ 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. Rose Tremain
“ There's the trick: to find the way - whether forwards or back - to what we long to be. Rose Tremain
“ Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn. Rose Tremain
“ And it is silence that she hears, the silence of lost years that have no voice left in them. Rose Tremain
“ 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
