Quotes by Helen Dunmore

Helen Dunmore

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

Stories

Trying

Writing

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

Long Walks

Pieces

Writing

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.

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.

Country

Delight

Literature

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

Stills

Want

Writing

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

Blood

Little Sister

Littles

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.

Entering

Firsts

Magazines

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.

Historical

Pleasure

Writing

I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me.

Black

Children

Sitting

I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.

Feels

Individual

Reader

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Alive

Black

Blood

Book

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Country

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Culture

Delight

Discipline

Doors

Doubt

Dull

Ears

Eden

Entering

Feelings

Feels

Finding Yourself

Firsts

Garden

Genocide

Happenings

Historical

Ifs

Individual

Journey

Language

Life

Literature

Little Sister

Littles

Long Walks

Longing

Magazines

Men

Mourning

Nice

Opponents

Parent

Past

People

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Pleasure

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Quotes by Helen Dunmore

Helen Dunmore

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me.

I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.

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