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

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

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

- 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

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

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

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

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