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We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.

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Helen Dunmore

Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn’t work, throw it away.

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A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

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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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However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition.

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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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I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.

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