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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
Fact
Research
Years
I was always influenced by language.
Helen Dunmore
Language
My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.
Helen Dunmore
Books
First
Poems
Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.
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Books
Children
Sense
Writer
Writing
To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.
Helen Dunmore
History
Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.
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Past
Present
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
Poets
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.
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Language
Writing
Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.
Helen Dunmore
Poets
Words
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
Poetry
Sound
Weight
Words
Writing