If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us. — Helen Dunmore Learning Copy Share Image
Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present. — Helen Dunmore Genocide Copy Share Image
Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words. — Helen Dunmore Apprenticeship Copy Share Image
When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is. — Helen Dunmore Doubt Copy Share Image
“Dad was alive. I believed Conor, but I still didn't really know it. But now I do.” — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately. — Helen Dunmore Books Copy Share Image
Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive. — Helen Dunmore Book Copy Share Image
“she would have to tell the story of this afternoon to herself over and over until she could make a different shape… — Helen Dunmore Heart Copy Share Image
However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with… — Helen Dunmore Books Copy Share Image
The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that… — Helen Dunmore Men Copy Share Image
The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any… — Helen Dunmore Alive Copy Share Image
“They will heal anyway, with time. We...are strong. It takes more...to conquer us.Scars don't matter, little one. They are the marks of… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and… — Helen Dunmore Book Copy Share Image
As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our… — Helen Dunmore Birth Copy Share Image
“They had something, that generation, he thought. They didn't doubt themselves. They knew what life was, and where they belonged in it.… — Helen Dunmore Generation Copy Share Image
“Listen to what you have written. A dud rhythm in a passage of dialogue may show that you don't yet understand the… — Helen Dunmore Characters Copy Share Image
“You live in the past,’ Kate said. ‘You live in your grandfather’s time.’ But she was wrong. The past was not something… — Helen Dunmore Life Copy Share Image
“Go back to your house then, and see what happiness you find there.’ ‘It has nothing to do with happiness.’ ‘It is… — Helen Dunmore Happiness Copy Share Image
If the garden of Eden really exists it does so moment by moment, fragmented and tough, cropping up like a fan of… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
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… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
“They wanted spring, of course they wanted it, more than anything. They longed for sun with every pore of their skin. But… — Helen Dunmore Flower Copy Share Image
“You have to keep on with a house, day after day, I think. Heating, cleaning, opening and closing windows, making sounds to… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
“He said a fortuneteller had told Mum's fortune once, and after that, she's never gone out on sea again. It was years… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint. — Helen Dunmore Book Copy Share Image
A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into. — Helen Dunmore Books Copy Share Image
Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn’t work, throw it away. — Helen Dunmore Funny Copy Share Image
To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation. — Helen Dunmore History Copy Share Image
Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay. — Helen Dunmore Dreamworld Copy Share Image
“As long as you two look out for each other, you’ll be safe enough.” — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
For you where never my blood sister so no more shall I call you little sister — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
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