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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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"People should be courage to read books, it should be made in such way how I changed my opinion how James Patterson did it. It should be done a way in which people should se the advantages of reading a book."
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"She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me."
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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
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"By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas."
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"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."
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"If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it."
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"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."
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"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."
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"I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please."
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"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears."
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Explore more quotes by Helen Dunmore
"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."
Poetry
"A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into."
Writing
"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."
Man
"My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint."
Books
"I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there."
Hope
"If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us."
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"Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive."
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"I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me."
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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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"Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children."
Family
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