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Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings. ↗

— Rose Tremain

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I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel. ↗

— Rose Tremain

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A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter; / he who finds one finds a treasure. / A faithful friend is beyond price, no sum can balance his worth. / A faithful friend is a life-saving remedy, such as he who fears God finds; / for he who fears God behaves accordingly, / and his friend will be like himself. ↗

— Anonymous

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Young people are not only rebels. They have a special heart. ↗

— Gloria Trevi

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I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important. ↗

— Rose Tremain

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I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland. ↗

— Rose Tremain

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I'm not very interested in charting a day-to-day familiar reality. I'm always looking for territory in which to explore the BIG subjects, the life-or-death stories. ↗

— Rose Tremain

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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. ↗

— 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. ↗

— Rose Tremain

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Week after week, the heads of Red Army Intelligence received updates on the Wehrmacht's preparations. ↗

— Leopold Trepper

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