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Helen Dunmore Quotes
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We are creatures of story (Helen Dunmore Quotes)
However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I’m concerned. (Helen Dunmore Quotes)
For you where never my blood sister so no more shall I call you little sister (Helen Dunmore Quotes)
Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book (Helen Dunmore Quotes)
I didn’t choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place (Helen Dunmore Quotes)
However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition (Helen Dunmore Quotes)
Finish the day’s writing when you still want to continue (Helen Dunmore Quotes)
In a world without air all you breathe is adventure! (Helen Dunmore Quotes)
Writing children’s books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive (Helen Dunmore Quotes)
Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn’t work, throw it away (Helen Dunmore Quotes)
To try to expunge an individual’s history is a terrible violation (Helen Dunmore Quotes)
Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present (Helen Dunmore Quotes)
Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words (Helen Dunmore Quotes)
Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children (Helen Dunmore Quotes)
Once one habit peels away the others follow it. You have to hold on, or the next thing you’ll find yourself parading down the street in your nightdress. Habit is everything (Helen Dunmore Quotes)
Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight (Helen Dunmore Quotes)
A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk (Helen Dunmore Quotes)
Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn’t work, throw it away. It’s a nice feeling, and you don’t want to be cluttered with the corpses of poems and stories which have everything in them except the life they need (Helen Dunmore Quotes)
I wish I was away in Ingo far across the briny sea sailing over deepest waters where neither care nore worry trouble me (Helen Dunmore Quotes)
The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes (Helen Dunmore Quotes)
Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear (Helen Dunmore Quotes)
When you are young you don’t always realise how full of doubts everybody is (Helen Dunmore Quotes)
It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed (Helen Dunmore Quotes)
If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us (Helen Dunmore Quotes)
I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us (Helen Dunmore Quotes)
I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all (Helen Dunmore Quotes)
I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately (Helen Dunmore Quotes)
I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me (Helen Dunmore Quotes)
However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I’m concerned (Helen Dunmore Quotes)
As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates (Helen Dunmore Quotes)
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