97 Quotes by Helen Dunmore
"I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us."
"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."
"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."
"I'm a poet and I've read a lot of Russian poetry and can hear It's sounds. Russian poetry is so important to an understanding of the culture."
"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."
"i wish i was away in Ingo far across the briny sea sailing over deepest waters where neither care nore worry trouble me"
"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 deny that they have ever existed."