Rose Tremain Quotes

If you set your story in Rome, Ireland or Sheboygan, for that matter, go there. If you're broke, set it in the town where you live, or where you grew up.

If my characters travel somewhere, I generally write about a place I know to give the scenes more authenticity.

An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.

With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop.

When you're trying to create imagery, you're trying to create a feeling or a mood.

I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around.

Place colors everything; It is the thing by which I find my way in my fiction.

Fiction's essential activity is to imagine how others feel, what a Saturday afternoon in an Italian town in the 2nd Century looked like. My ambition is solely to get some effect, as of light on stone in a forest on a September day.

Location is a very important aspect to songwriting.

I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.

The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.

I know what it's like to be genuinely intrigued and compelled by a story and to have a sense that there's an adventure to be had and a film to be conjured.

I dream in color.

If you're sitting in a place like Martha's Vineyard, I don't think you're going to write a song about a ski resort.

I get inspired by everything - everything that is around me.

I went to Europe three times, I read dozens and dozens of books, I studied thousands of photos. But I always supplemented that research with imagination; research might give you detail, but imagination supplies the direction in which to apply all that detail.

I really like to travel when I write. Something about seeing new things and being in new cultures and environments provokes new thoughts in your head.

If it's present in the life of the character, I'll write about it. Kitchen, bedroom, church, I'll follow a character wherever they go.

Something that has been every important to me in all my projects has been location, the place where they are installed.

I've always known from a young age that creativity is natural.

For all my films, location plays an important role because I like to give the authentic look of the place. And for that, one must go there and shoot at the right spots.

Look around you...Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and watch the sky. Tell me what's happening in the wide world.

I sometimes close my eyes during a show because I have drawn a picture of an audience enjoying the show more on the back of my eyelids.

If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from when you go to sleep at night, just look around. This is where they are made.

Every one who has seriously investigated a novel question, who has really interrogated Nature with a view to a distinct answer, will bear me out in saying that it requires intense and sustained effort of imagination.