"Children will not pretend to be enjoying books,……" — Helen Dunmore
"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 are looking for delight."
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Helen Dunmore
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38 Quotes by Helen Dunmore
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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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As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told…
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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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