"I could start with Mandelstam, who was a……" — Helen Dunmore

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

— Helen Dunmore

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38 Quotes by Helen Dunmore

Helen Dunmore has 38 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Finish the day's writing when you still want to continue.
Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't work, throw it away. It's a nice feeling, and you don't want…
A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.
As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told…
However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a…
However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see…
I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A…
I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.
I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in…
I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the…
I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and…
I was always influenced by language.

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More Early Quotes

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Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even… — Marcel Achard
The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police. — Julian Assange
I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel… — David Attenborough
My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was… — Chinua Achebe
I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw. — Margaret Atwood
I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka. — Margaret Atwood
The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under… — Margaret Atwood
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. — Jane Austen
I've learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious. — Paul Auster
Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane. — Irving Babbitt
Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and… — Lester Bangs

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