Helen Dunmore FRSL (12 December 1952 – 5 June 2017[1]) was a British poet, novelist, and short story and children's writer.[2] (wikipedia)
A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.
We are creatures of story.
In a world without air all you breathe is adventure!
i wish i was away in Ingo far across the briny sea sailing over deepest waters where neither care nore worry trouble me
It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.
Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.
Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.
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.
Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.
When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is.