“They wanted spring, of course they wanted it, more than anything. They longed for sun with every pore of their skin. But… — Helen Dunmore Spring 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
Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words. — Helen Dunmore Apprenticeship Copy Share Image
I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the… — Helen Dunmore Age Copy Share Image
“They stand close for a while, not touching, but breathing each other's breath. The city is silent now, as if for peace.” — Helen Dunmore Peace 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
I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay. — Helen Dunmore People Copy Share Image
“You're trapped both ways. You do as you are told and you do things that you think will make you big, but… — Helen Dunmore Inspirational 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 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
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
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
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
“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
Finish the day's writing when you still want to continue. — Helen Dunmore Inspirational Copy Share Image
Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children. — Helen Dunmore Began 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
“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 Time 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
If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us. — Helen Dunmore Learning 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
When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is. — Helen Dunmore Doubt 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
