Helen Dunmore

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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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. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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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. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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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. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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