Rose Tremain Quotes

Whether you are in the West, the East, the North, or the South, we should all feel pressured to attempt more, find new ways of outwitting ourselves, in our writing and thinking.

Through my writing, I have made new friends and continued to learn about this world of ours in all its wonder, with all its challenges.

Write. Write every day. Write honestly. Write something that doesn’t exist, and you wish did. Read. Learn. Study. Watch people. Listen to what they say, listen to how they say it and listen to what they do not say. Surprise yourself. Scare yourself.

A student of life considers the world a classroom.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

A personal library is a reflection of who you are and who you want to be, of what you value and what you desire, of how much you know and how much more you'd like to know.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Everybody learns from traveling. I think we all do.

This life is a process of learning.

I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.

I like to learn about things.

I'm someone who is open-minded to new experiences because they teach you new things.

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

If you read, the world is your oyster. It truly is. Reading makes everything possible.

Whenever I was encouraged by my elders to pick up a book, I was often told, 'Read so as to know the world.' And it is true; books have invited me into different countries, states of mind, social conditions and historical epochs; they have offered me a place at the most unusual gatherings.

I strive to get better and better in understanding how the world works.

I was always curious. I wanted to learn a little about a lot of things, and I really had to get pushed to achieve.

Learning is always great!

If you asked me what the most important thing in my life is, it's learning.

Most of us fully expect that we're going to learn things we didn't know about.

What I used to do with a passion, foolishly and vainly imagining I would change the world for the better, I no longer tolerate in myself or anyone else. But draw, always draw - and WRITE.

I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.