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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."
"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."
"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
Explore more quotes by Helen Dunmore
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately."
"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."
"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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