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27 quotes by Helen Dunmore

Helen Dunmore (born 12 December 1952) is a British poet, novelist and children's writer. Educated at the University of York, she now lives in Bristol. She has won awards for her fiction (the Society of Authors' McKitterick Prize and the Orange Prize) and also for her poetry (she has won the Cardiff International Poetry Prize, been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and had her books named as Poetry Book Society Choice and Recommendations)....
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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... →

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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... →

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It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to... →

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.

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I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.

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