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Helen Dunmore

"I was always influenced by language."

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"I was always influenced by language."

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"Hey, any idea why Australians speak something that sounds deceptively like English but isn't? I mean, I'm trying to figure out why I can't seem to converse with another human being who speaks the same language as I do."

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"Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies."

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"If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest."

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"Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling."

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"But language is wine upon his lips."

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"A cliche is everything you've ever heard of."

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"A lexicographer a writer of dictionaries a harmless drudge."

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"The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar."

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"Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use."

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"All choice of words is slang. It marks a class. "There is correct English: that is not slang. "I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets."

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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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"Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words."
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"As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates."
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"If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us."
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"Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book."
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"Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children."
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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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"I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing."
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"Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present."
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"I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately."
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