Tremain feels strongly that fiction should not be confined to the experiences of the author. “I’m not a writer who writes about my own life. I’ve always been bored by the idea. I think novelists who stay in the contemporary, like Ian McEwan, say, who does draw a lot on things that have happened to him...” She pauses, diplomatically. “Well it’s just, the trouble with drawing on your own biography is that eventually it runs out, doesn’t it?”
[Rose Tremain, British author, speaking to Decca Aitkenhead in a Guardian interview (19 April 2008) about her latest book The Road Home.]
21 April 2008
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Good words.
Thank you.
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