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.
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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.Helen Dunmore
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.
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
You have to search for the voice of each character the things that he or she could or could not have said, the distinctive rhythm of the voice.
Helen Dunmore
I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing.
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Many chapters are headed by poem quotations. These epigraphs are another way of shining light on what is happening at this stage of the novel.
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