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> [Writers feel that they can't afford to wait. They must do it now, and they are so clever, and there is so much competition. I'm quite happy to wait, and quite confident that the muses will cross the stream.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dessaix/writers-feel-that-they-can-t-afford-to-wait-they-must-do-it-now-and/)

[Robert Dessaix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-dessaix/)

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## More by Robert Dessaix

> [Every time you watch a performance in the theatre, you know that this is just for you, and will never be the same again.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dessaix/every-time-you-watch-a-performance-in-the-theatre-you-know-that-this/)

[Robert Dessaix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-dessaix/)

> [I did spend about 5 years in the Griffin Theatre Company in 1978 actually , and worked therefore about 5 years on a voluntary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dessaix/i-did-spend-about-5-years-in-the-griffin-theatre-company-in-1978/)

[Robert Dessaix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-dessaix/)

> [Writers feel that they can't afford to wait. They must do it now, and they are so clever, and there is so much competition.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dessaix/writers-feel-that-they-can-t-afford-to-wait-they-must-do-it-now-and/)

[Robert Dessaix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-dessaix/)

> [I think it is an important question of our lives - what is the meaning of literature to us as humans.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dessaix/i-think-it-is-an-important-question-of-our-lives-what-is-the-meaning/)

[Robert Dessaix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-dessaix/)

> [A form of art that I like is portraiture. I've been thinking about portraiture, and its relationship to writing and literature, biography and autobiography,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dessaix/a-form-of-art-that-i-like-is-portraiture-i-ve-been-thinking-about/)

[Robert Dessaix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-dessaix/)

> [It is much easier for me to define what makes a novel French or Russian, but defining the characteristics of an Australian novel are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dessaix/it-is-much-easier-for-me-to-define-what-makes-a-novel-french-or/)

[Robert Dessaix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-dessaix/)

> [There is a mental space that we consciously makes our way back to, and give honour to what has formed us in this mental…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dessaix/there-is-a-mental-space-that-we-consciously-makes-our-way-back-to-and/)

[Robert Dessaix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-dessaix/)

> [I think that a lot of people do have a physical Ithaca, but I don't think that I do and I think that a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dessaix/i-think-that-a-lot-of-people-do-have-a-physical-ithaca-but-i-don-t/)

[Robert Dessaix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-dessaix/)

> [Despite the war, and bombings, and all the big things that happen to us, the stuff of our lives is small and always will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dessaix/despite-the-war-and-bombings-and-all-the-big-things-that-happen-to-us/)

[Robert Dessaix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-dessaix/)

> [“...'undertow'. It describes (...) how underneath our own everyday lives - the shopping and squabbles and weeding and trips to the vet - there's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dessaix/undertow-it-describes-how-underneath-our-own-everyday-lives-the/)

[Robert Dessaix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-dessaix/)

> [When I re-read the Odyssey, it felt like I was reading PD James or Minette Walters - you feel that you are sharing in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dessaix/when-i-re-read-the-odyssey-it-felt-like-i-was-reading-pd-james-or/)

[Robert Dessaix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-dessaix/)

> [“How do you irradiate the humbly trivial - the sneezes and waiting in bus-queues - with the lofty, and at the same time cherish…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dessaix/how-do-you-irradiate-the-humbly-trivial-the-sneezes-and-waiting-in/)

[Robert Dessaix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-dessaix/)

> [I think that in this globalised world, the local is going to become more and more important - it is a paradox. You see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dessaix/i-think-that-in-this-globalised-world-the-local-is-going-to-become/)

[Robert Dessaix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-dessaix/)

> [The extraordinarily facile and in literary terms long lived works tend to be about ordinary people. Even Sappho writes about the utterly insignificant .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dessaix/the-extraordinarily-facile-and-in-literary-terms-long-lived-works/)

[Robert Dessaix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-dessaix/)

> [One has to choose a word in English. If you want to be eligible for a literary prize you have to designate it as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dessaix/one-has-to-choose-a-word-in-english-if-you-want-to-be-eligible-for-a/)

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