Best Helen Dunmore Quotes
- To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation. Expunge
- When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is. Always Realise
- Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive. Book
- 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… Aloud
- Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of… All
- For you where never my blood sister so no more shall I call you little sister Blood
- i wish i was away in Ingo far across the briny sea sailing over deepest waters where neither care nore worry trouble me Across
- In a world without air all you breathe is adventure! Adventure
- We are creatures of story. Creatures
- The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes. Genes
- I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing. Early
- Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children. Began
- Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They… Been