Helen Dunmore Quotes - Page 2

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

  Helen Dunmore

  Doubt, Young, Realising

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

  Helen Dunmore

  Strong, Children, Book

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• My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.

  Helen Dunmore

  Book, Firsts, Collections

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• 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.

  Helen Dunmore

  Book, Doors, Mourning

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

  Helen Dunmore

  Past, Trying, Genocide

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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

  Tyrants, Opponents, Want

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• I was always influenced by language.

  Helen Dunmore

  Language

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• 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

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• However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition.

  Helen Dunmore

  Entering, Magazines, Firsts

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• 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

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• For you where never my blood sister so no more shall I call you little sister

  Helen Dunmore

  Blood, Little Sister, Littles

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