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 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 rewriting stills ifs A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk. Helen Dunmore long-walks pieces writing Finish the day's writing when you still want to continue. Helen Dunmore stills want writing The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes. Helen Dunmore longing powerful stories 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 garden eden life 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 nice feelings writing In a world without air all you breathe is adventure! Helen Dunmore air adventure world 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 sea worry water To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation. Helen Dunmore individual terrible trying We are creatures of story. Helen Dunmore creatures stories 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-be writing years 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 parent stories teacher 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 delight literature country 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 reader tears book If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us. Helen Dunmore recognise happenings past 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 tyrants opponents want For you where never my blood sister so no more shall I call you little sister Helen Dunmore little-sister littles blood 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 russia age culture 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 powerful reading journey
