Helen Dunmore

I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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I was always influenced by language. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that really they were as uncertain as I was. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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