Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.
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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
A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.
Helen Dunmore
Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.
Helen Dunmore
If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.
Helen Dunmore
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.
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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.
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