"We are creatures of story." — Helen Dunmore

"We are creatures of story."

— 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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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature. — J. J. Abrams
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will… — Francis of Assisi
None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its… — Mary Astell
Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone… — David Attenborough
I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens,… — David Attenborough
Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural… — David Attenborough
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom… — Marcus Aurelius
God's first creature, which was light. — Francis Bacon
As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. — Francis Bacon
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or… — Abigail Adams
To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
A man is a poor creature compared to a woman. — Honore de Balzac

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