Helen Dunmore Quotes About Writing
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Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.
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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk.
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Finish the day's writing when you still want to continue.
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