“I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and r...” — Helen Dunmore Quote

“I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us.”

“Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.”

“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.”

“My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.”

“The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.”

“Cabbies in particular seem to like discussing the fate the Earth.”