"Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't……" — 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 the corpses of poems and stories which have everything in them except the life they need."
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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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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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A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk.
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No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.
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You will achieve grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day - not long and…
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America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome,…
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I don't like when I look too cluttered.
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The lines of Pearl Art Glass are clean, certainly not cluttered.
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I prefer a cluttered workspace.
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There was a subtlety about Peggy Lee. It was powerful. There was a valuable use of space. Everything was not…
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There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.
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That's the thing about being a Labrador retriever - you were born for fun. Seldom was your loopy, freewheeling mind…
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The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.
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