Helen Dunmore Book Quotations

Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight.

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.

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.

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.