Helen Dunmore Quotes

• Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn’t work, throw it away.

  Helen Dunmore

  Rewriting, Stills, Ifs

  "Diez reglas para escribir ficción". www.theguardian.com. 20 de febrero de 2010.

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• A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk.

  Helen Dunmore

  Writing, Long Walks, Pieces

  "Diez reglas para escribir ficción" por Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, AL Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. 19 de febrero de 2010.

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• Finish the day's writing when you still want to continue.

  Helen Dunmore

  Writing, Want, Stills

  "Diez reglas para escribir ficción". www.theguardian.com. 20 de febrero de 2010.

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• The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes.

  Helen Dunmore

  Powerful, Stories, Longing

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• Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't work, throw it away. It's a nice feeling, and you don't want to be cluttered with the corpses of poems and stories which have everything in them except the life they need.

  Helen Dunmore

  Nice, Writing, Feelings

  "Diez reglas para escribir ficción" por Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, AL Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. 19 de febrero de 2010.

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• If the garden of Eden really exists it does so moment by moment, fragmented and tough, cropping up like a fan of buddleia high up in the gutter of a deserted warehouse, or in a heap of frozen cabbages becoming luminous in the reflected light of roadside snow.

  Helen Dunmore

  Life, Garden, Eden

  Helen Dunmore (1988). “The Raw Garden”, Dufour Editions

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• Once one habit peels away the others follow it. You have to hold on, or the next thing you'll find yourself parading down the street in your nightdress. Habit is everything.

  Helen Dunmore

  Discipline, Finding Yourself, Next

  Helen Dunmore (2008). “Your Blue-Eyed Boy”, p.217, Penguin UK

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• 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

  Teacher, Parent, Stories

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• i wish i was away in Ingo far across the briny sea sailing over deepest waters where neither care nore worry trouble me

  Helen Dunmore

  Sea, Water, Worry

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• In a world without air all you breathe is adventure!

  Helen Dunmore

  Adventure, Air, World

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• Escribir poesía te hace intensamente consciente de cómo suenan las palabras, tanto en voz alta como dentro de la cabeza del lector. Aprendes el peso de las palabras y cómo suenan al oído.

  Helen Dunmore

  Writing, Sound, Ears

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• We are creatures of story.

  Helen Dunmore

  Stories, Creatures

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• I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay.

  Helen Dunmore

  Personas

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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

  Writing, Alive, Dull

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• Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.

  Helen Dunmore

  Use, Tough, Poet

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• To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.

  Helen Dunmore

  Trying, Individual, Terrible

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• 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.

  Helen Dunmore

  Writing, Years, Would Be

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• El conde Drácula me había indicado que fuera al hotel Golden Krone, que me pareció, para mi gran deleite, totalmente anticuado, pues, por supuesto, quería ver todo lo que pudiera de las costumbres del país.

  Helen Dunmore

  Country, Delight, Literature

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• 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.

  Helen Dunmore

  Book, Tears, Reader

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• If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.

  Helen Dunmore

  Past, Recognise, Happenings

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• My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.

  Helen Dunmore

  Book, Firsts, Collections

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• Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book.

  Helen Dunmore

  Book, Doors, Mourning

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• 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.

  Helen Dunmore

  Men, Poet, Uncertain

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

  Helen Dunmore

  Strong, Children, Book

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• A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

  Helen Dunmore

  Escribir, Intentar, Historias

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