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— Helen Dunmore
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
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
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
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
I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.
— 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
A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.
— 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
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