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Helen Dunmore Quotes
A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into. - 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
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
Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children. - 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
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 Im concerned. - 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
I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately. - Helen Dunmore Quotes
I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing. - Helen Dunmore Quotes
I didnt 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
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 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 hope that readers will tear through my books because they cant stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there. - Helen Dunmore Quotes
I was always influenced by language. - Helen Dunmore Quotes
I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay. - Helen Dunmore Quotes
Im a poet and Ive read a lot of Russian poetry and can hear Its sounds. Russian poetry is so important to an understanding of the culture. - Helen Dunmore Quotes
If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us. - 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
Many chapters are headed by poem quotations. These epigraphs are another way of shining light on what is happening at this stage of the novel. - 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
My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint. - Helen Dunmore Quotes
Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words. - Helen Dunmore Quotes
The language has got to be fully alive - I cant bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I dont see why any reader should put up with it. - Helen Dunmore Quotes
The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that really they were as uncertain as I was. - Helen Dunmore Quotes
Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present. - Helen Dunmore Quotes
To try to expunge an individuals history is a terrible violation. - Helen Dunmore Quotes
When you are young you dont always realise how full of doubts everybody is. - Helen Dunmore Quotes
Writing childrens books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive. - 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
You have to search for the voice of each character: the things that he or she could or could not have said, the distinctive rhythm of the voice. - Helen Dunmore Quotes
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