Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face… — Helen Dunmore Book Copy Share Image
To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation. — Helen Dunmore History 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 Corpses Copy Share Image
“The word 'personal' is one of my aversions. Personal loan. Personal hygiene. Personal safety. It's only a way of wrapping up bad… — Helen Dunmore Bad news Copy Share Image
I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy… — Helen Dunmore Bigs Copy Share Image
“Dad was alive. I believed Conor, but I still didn't really know it. But now I do.” — Helen Dunmore Dad 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
“Fear of this order is not an emotion. It is like a virus overwhelming every cell of his body, while his mind… — Helen Dunmore Fear Copy Share Image
I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing. — Helen Dunmore Could 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
“It seemed to me that there was a self-interest hidden in the core of all of us, which cooled us when we… — Helen Dunmore Fate Copy Share Image
A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk. — Helen Dunmore Ifs 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
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
If the garden of Eden really exists it does so moment by moment, fragmented and tough, cropping up like a fan of… — Helen Dunmore Becoming 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
For you where never my blood sister so no more shall I call you little sister — Helen Dunmore Blood Copy Share Image
“I wish I was away in Ingo Far across the briny sea Sailing over deepest waters Where neither care nor worry trouble… — Helen Dunmore Care Copy Share Image
Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present. — Helen Dunmore Genocide 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
Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books… — Helen Dunmore Because Copy Share Image
I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write… — Helen Dunmore Books 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
