What did Helen Dunmore mean by: Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words. - Helen Dunmore Copy
+ A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Helen Dunmore, Stories, Writing, 0 - Helen Dunmore
+ A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Helen Dunmore, Long Walks, Pieces, Writing, 0 - Helen Dunmore
+ If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Helen Dunmore, Happenings, Past, Recognise, 0 - Helen Dunmore
+ When you are young you don’t always realise how full of doubts everybody is. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Helen Dunmore, Doubt, Realising, Youth, 0 - Helen Dunmore
+ Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn’t work, throw it away. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Helen Dunmore, Rewriting, 0 - Helen Dunmore
+ To try to expunge an individual’s history is a terrible violation. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Helen Dunmore, Individual, Terrible, 0 - Helen Dunmore
+ Writing children’s books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Helen Dunmore, Book, Children, Strong, 0 - Helen Dunmore
+ I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Helen Dunmore, Individual, 0 - Helen Dunmore
O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung. - Jean Ingelow Poet · England
I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become. - Jean Toomer Writer
The poet will not be satisfied with recording, the poet will have to transform. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
If you find yourself under lethal attack don’t be kind. Be harsh. Be tough. Be ruthless. - Jeff Cooper Firearms instructor and author
