I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing. Helen Dunmore More Quotes by Helen Dunmore More Quotes From Helen Dunmore Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn’t work, throw it away. Helen Dunmore rewritingstillsifs A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk. Helen Dunmore long-walkspieceswriting Finish the day's writing when you still want to continue. Helen Dunmore stillswantwriting The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes. Helen Dunmore longingpowerfulstories If the garden of Eden really exists it does so moment by moment, fragmented and tough, cropping up like a fan of buddleia high up in the gutter of a deserted warehouse, or in a heap of frozen cabbages becoming luminous in the reflected light of roadside snow. Helen Dunmore gardenedenlife 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. Helen Dunmore nicefeelingswriting In a world without air all you breathe is adventure! Helen Dunmore airadventureworld i wish i was away in Ingo far across the briny sea sailing over deepest waters where neither care nore worry trouble me Helen Dunmore seaworrywater To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation. Helen Dunmore individualterribletrying We are creatures of story. Helen Dunmore creaturesstories I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all. Helen Dunmore would-bewritingyears 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 parentstoriesteacher Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country. Helen Dunmore delightliteraturecountry 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 readertearsbook If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us. Helen Dunmore recognisehappeningspast 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 tyrantsopponentswant For you where never my blood sister so no more shall I call you little sister Helen Dunmore little-sisterlittlesblood I was always influenced by language. Helen Dunmore language 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. Helen Dunmore russiaageculture 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. Helen Dunmore powerfulreadingjourney
