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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

I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay. — Helen Dunmore

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. — Helen Dunmore

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

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

I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing. — Helen Dunmore

The art of hiding in plain sight used to be second nature, and now it has become the whole of him — Helen Dunmore

The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes. — Helen Dunmore

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present. — Helen Dunmore

To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation. — Helen Dunmore

You're trapped both ways. You do as you are told and you do things that you think will make you big, but all the time you're shrinking. — Helen Dunmore

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive. — Helen Dunmore

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words. — Helen Dunmore

Fear of this order is not an emotion. It is like a virus overwhelming every cell of his body, while his mind struggles to remain clear. — Helen Dunmore

They had something, that generation, he thought. They didn't doubt themselves. They knew what life was, and where they belonged in it. Not like us. — Helen Dunmore

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

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

It's so respectable you could put it in a Christmas circular letter. — Helen Dunmore

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

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

In a world without air all you breathe is adventure! — Helen Dunmore

I was always influenced by language. — Helen Dunmore

They stand close for a while, not touching, but breathing each other's breath. The city is silent now, as if for peace. — Helen Dunmore

I don't know how you humans ever get anything done, you ask so many questions. — Helen Dunmore

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

Dad was alive. I believed Conor, but I still didn't really know it.
But now I do. — Helen Dunmore

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

Finish the day's writing when you still want to continue. — Helen Dunmore

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

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

Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children. — Helen Dunmore

As long as you two look out for each other, you'll be safe enough. — Helen Dunmore

We are creatures of story. — Helen Dunmore

If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us. — Helen Dunmore

Childhood is a slum and they love it. — Helen Dunmore