Every time you watch a performance in the theatre, you know that this is just for you, and will never be the… — Robert Dessaix Exciting Copy Share Image
I did spend about 5 years in the Griffin Theatre Company in 1978 actually , and worked therefore about 5 years on… — Robert Dessaix Actors Copy Share Image
Writers feel that they can't afford to wait. They must do it now, and they are so clever, and there is so… — Robert Dessaix Clever Copy Share Image
I think it is an important question of our lives - what is the meaning of literature to us as humans. — Robert Dessaix Books Copy Share Image
A form of art that I like is portraiture. I've been thinking about portraiture, and its relationship to writing and literature, biography… — Robert Dessaix Art Copy Share Image
It is much easier for me to define what makes a novel French or Russian, but defining the characteristics of an Australian… — Robert Dessaix Australian Copy Share Image
There is a mental space that we consciously makes our way back to, and give honour to what has formed us in… — Robert Dessaix Giving Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of people do have a physical Ithaca, but I don't think that I do and I think… — Robert Dessaix Circumstances Copy Share Image
Despite the war, and bombings, and all the big things that happen to us, the stuff of our lives is small and… — Robert Dessaix Big things Copy Share Image
“...'undertow'. It describes (...) how underneath our own everyday lives - the shopping and squabbles and weeding and trips to the vet… — Robert Dessaix Children Copy Share Image
When I re-read the Odyssey, it felt like I was reading PD James or Minette Walters - you feel that you are… — Robert Dessaix Elitism Copy Share Image
“How do you irradiate the humbly trivial - the sneezes and waiting in bus-queues - with the lofty, and at the same… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
I think that in this globalised world, the local is going to become more and more important - it is a paradox.… — Robert Dessaix Coming out Copy Share Image
The extraordinarily facile and in literary terms long lived works tend to be about ordinary people. Even Sappho writes about the utterly… — Robert Dessaix Art Copy Share Image
One has to choose a word in English. If you want to be eligible for a literary prize you have to designate… — Robert Dessaix Ifs Copy Share Image
The Odyssey and Iliad say things about the human condition in ways we should re-acquaint ourselves with, and use as a prism… — Robert Dessaix Conditions Copy Share Image
I am coming from an older school, and I feel that you must learn to wait. There is that essay which was… — Robert Dessaix Crosses Copy Share Image
You are obviously writing out of experience and so the boundaries are always blurred, it is just that sometimes it would seem… — Robert Dessaix Bits Copy Share Image
You turn your life into a work of art in order to redeem the ordinariness - a condition you are stuck with. — Robert Dessaix Art Copy Share Image
Those are the two things: a sense of loving and being loved, and being creative - that is what life is made… — Robert Dessaix Be creative Copy Share Image
One of the unfortunate things about creative writing courses is that they make people impatient. People feel that they have prepared themselves… — Robert Dessaix Courses Copy Share Image
It is terribly important to maintain a national identity in a way that it probably wasn't before. — Robert Dessaix Identity Copy Share Image
In the theatre, you are in love with what is on the stage, with the moment. You just don't get that with… — Robert Dessaix Knows Copy Share Image
I don't write quickly or a lot. Well actually I write quickly, but I don't have a store of things. I will… — Robert Dessaix Erotic Copy Share Image
Wonder - the sensation of being whisked out of time and space...to be bathed in ... epiphanous delight. — Robert Dessaix Curiosity Copy Share Image
