If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us. — Helen Dunmore Learning 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
When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is. — Helen Dunmore Doubt Copy Share Image
Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive. — Helen Dunmore Book 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
Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn’t work, throw it away. — Helen Dunmore Funny Copy Share Image
Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children. — Helen Dunmore Began Copy Share Image
The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes. — Helen Dunmore Genes 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 Heal 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 Discussing 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 Life Copy Share Image
However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first… — Helen Dunmore Accepted Copy Share Image
Once one habit peels away the others follow it. You have to hold on, or the next thing you'll find yourself parading… — Helen Dunmore Discipline Copy Share Image
It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents,… — Helen Dunmore Century Copy Share Image
Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the… — Helen Dunmore Books 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 Years ago Copy Share Image
