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Helen Dunmore Quotes & Sayings

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Last updated Dec 2023

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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.

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Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

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When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is.

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To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.

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Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

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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.

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The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it.

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Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.

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My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.

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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.

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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.

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If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.

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I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay.

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I was always influenced by language.

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I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing.

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I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.

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