Helen Dunmore Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Helen Dunmore quotes and sayings page 2 (poet). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 27 we have.
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.”
“I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing.”
“I was always influenced by language.”
“When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is.”
“Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.”
“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.”
“To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.”
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