Helen Dunmore Quotes

A Novel, In The End, Is A Container, A Shape Which You Are Trying To Pour Your Story Into.

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.

Those Who Try To Obliterate The Past Are Injuring The Present.

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.

My First Collection Of Poems Was Published By Bloodaxe Books, Which Was Then A Very New Imprint.

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.

When You Are Young You Don't Always Realise How Full Of Doubts Everybody Is.

Writing Children's Books Gives A Writer A Very Strong Sense Of Narrative Drive.

For You Where Never My Blood Sister So No More Shall I Call You Little Sister

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.

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.

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.