Writing Quotes by Helen Dunmore

Helen Dunmore

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

Stories

Trying

Writing

Helen Dunmore

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

Long Walks

Pieces

Writing

Helen Dunmore

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

Stills

Want

Writing

Helen Dunmore

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.

Historical

Pleasure

Writing

Helen Dunmore

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.

Would Be

Writing

Years

Helen Dunmore

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.

Feelings

Nice

Writing

Helen Dunmore

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.

Alive

Dull

Writing

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.

Ears

Sound

Writing

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Alive

Black

Blood

Book

Children

Collections

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Creatures

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Discipline

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Doubt

Dull

Ears

Eden

Entering

Feelings

Feels

Finding Yourself

Firsts

Garden

Genocide

Happenings

Historical

Ifs

Individual

Journey

Language

Life

Literature

Little Sister

Littles

Long Walks

Longing

Magazines

Men

Mourning

Nice

Opponents

Parent

Past

People

Pieces

Pleasure

Poet

Powerful

Reader

Reading

Realising

Recognise

Rewriting

Russia

Sea

Sitting

Sound

Stills

Stories

Strong

Teacher

Tears

Terrible

Tough

Trying

Tyrants

Uncertain

Use

Want

Water

World

Worry

Would Be

Writing

Years

Young

Writing Quotes by Helen Dunmore

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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