Helen Dunmore Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk.

  Helen Dunmore

  Writing, Long Walks, Pieces

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, AL Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

• Finish the day's writing when you still want to continue.

  Helen Dunmore

  Writing, Want, Stills

  "Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

• 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, Writing, Feelings

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, AL Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

• 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

  Writing, Alive, Dull

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

  Helen Dunmore

  Strong, Children, Book

• 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

  Writing, Sound, Ears

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

  Helen Dunmore

  Writing, Trying, Stories

• 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.

  Helen Dunmore

  Writing, Historical, Pleasure

• 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

  Writing, Years, Would Be

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