Books Quote by Helen Dunmore

Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also…

— Helen Dunmore

To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.

— Helen Dunmore

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 cluttered with…

— Helen Dunmore

“The word 'personal' is one of my aversions. Personal loan. Personal hygiene. Personal safety. It's only a way of wrapping up bad news that…

— Helen Dunmore

I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with…

— Helen Dunmore

“Dad was alive. I believed Conor, but I still didn't really know it. But now I do.”

— Helen Dunmore

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

— Helen Dunmore

“Fear of this order is not an emotion. It is like a virus overwhelming every cell of his body, while his mind struggles to…

— Helen Dunmore

“Our houses are palaces to those who have none.”

— Helen Dunmore

I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing.

— Helen Dunmore

My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.

— Helen Dunmore

“It seemed to me that there was a self-interest hidden in the core of all of us, which cooled us when we contemplated any…

— Helen Dunmore