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Reader Quotes by Helen Dunmore
- I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.
- I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things…
- Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a…
- The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put…
- 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…
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