"As individuals, we are shaped by story from……" — Helen Dunmore
"As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates."
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Helen Dunmore
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38 Quotes by Helen Dunmore
Helen Dunmore has 38 quotes on this site.
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Finish the day's writing when you still want to continue.
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Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't work, throw it away. It's a nice feeling, and you don't want…
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A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.
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However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a…
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However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see…
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I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A…
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I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.
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I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in…
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I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the…
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I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and…
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I was always influenced by language.
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A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk.
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More Birth Quotes
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one of 2,462 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason…
— David Attenborough
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Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
— Marcus Aurelius
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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
— Francis Bacon
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as…
— Francis Bacon
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They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should…
— Ginger Baker
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There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of…
— James A. Baldwin
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When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I…
— Joyce Banda
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and…
— Amelia Barr
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Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
— Roseanne Barr
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from…
— Charles Baudelaire
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
— Samuel Beckett
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Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
— Max Beerbohm
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