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Helen Dunmore

"I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay."

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"I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay."

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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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"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 didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place."
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"Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words."
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