In the theatre, you are in love with what is on the stage, with the moment. You just don't get that with movies or videos, or TV, where you know that…

- Robert Dessaix

I don't write quickly or a lot. Well actually I write quickly, but I don't have a store of things. I will wait for that erotic moment - like the one …

- Robert Dessaix

Wonder - the sensation of being whisked out of time and space...to be bathed in ... epiphanous delight.

- 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 it in Western Europe more and …

- Robert Dessaix

Those are the two things: a sense of loving and being loved, and being creative - that is what life is made up of, and what literature reminds us of.

- Robert Dessaix

The extraordinarily facile and in literary terms long lived works tend to be about ordinary people. Even Sappho writes about the utterly insignifican…

- 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 lot of people do not. This depends on your val…

- Robert Dessaix

It is terribly important to maintain a national identity in a way that it probably wasn't before.

- Robert Dessaix

One of the unfortunate things about creative writing courses is that they make people impatient. People feel that they have prepared themselves and t…

- Robert Dessaix