Helen Dunmore Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight.”

“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 have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us.”

“Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.”

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

“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.”

“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.”