When an idea comes, spend silent time with it. Remember Keats's idea of Negative Capability and Kipling's advice … - Rose Tremain

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It was a stretch to imagine that Barbara Walters might want to give it all up for Ed Couch, but Evelyn tried her hardest. Of course, even though she was not religious, it was a comfort to know that the Bible backed her up in being a doormat.

Rose Tremain

When an idea comes, spend silent time with it. Remember Keats's idea of Negative Capability and Kipling's advice to "drift, wait and obey". Along with your gathering of hard data, allow yourself also to dream your idea into being.

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Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know. ' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going to enhance your understanding of the world and write about that.

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Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.

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In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.

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Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak.

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Writing is a strange synthesis between the two parts of your mind: the analytical side and the side that knows nothing at all, and you have to allow the dreaming side free rein.

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