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.
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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.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.
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To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.
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If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.
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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.
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I'm a poet and I've read a lot of Russian poetry and can hear It's sounds. Russian poetry is so important to an understanding of the culture.
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