All Helen Dunmore Quotes
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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Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.
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When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is.
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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 language, the literature and the history to the place.
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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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However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned.
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Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.
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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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Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.
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I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us.
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Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.
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