Helen Dunmore FRSL (12 December 1952 – 5 June 2017) was a British poet, novelist, and short story and children's writer.
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.
I was always influenced by language.
i wish i was away in Ingo far across the briny sea sailing over deepest waters where neither care nore worry trouble me
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.
I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.
For you where never my blood sister so no more shall I call you little sister
Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.
I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay.