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Robert Dessaix Quotes

One has to choose a word in English. If you want to be eligible for a literary prize you have to designate it as something Picture Quote #1

[Anton] Chekhov is the most produced playwright in the world after Shakespeare, and most of the people in my sort of audience would have seen at least one of his plays Picture Quote #1

Every time you watch a performance in the theatre, you know that this is just for you, and will never be the same again. It is quite exciting for me Picture Quote #1

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 what you are seeing is repeatable Picture Quote #1

You turn your life into a work of art in order to redeem the ordinariness - a condition you are stuck with Picture Quote #1

It is terribly important to maintain a national identity in a way that it probably wasn’t before Picture Quote #1

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I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small Picture Quote #1

I think it is an important question of our lives - what is the meaning of literature to us as humans Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The Odyssey and Iliad say things about the human condition in ways we should re-acquaint ourselves with, and use as a prism to interpret though Picture Quote #1

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, and so that will be my next thing Picture Quote #1

I’ve always had a fascination for the stage which has to do with transfiguration. One moment you are John Smith from East Brighton riding in your cart, and the next moment you are in a completely different world Picture Quote #1

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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 more. Eastern Europe is still coming out of the Soviet uniform cultural era, but this kind of separation and nationalism is very obvious now in Western Europe Picture Quote #1

One of the unfortunate things about creative writing courses is that they make people impatient. People feel that they have prepared themselves and that they must now do it. In fact there are positive incentives for doing so - universities are offering degrees for writing novels Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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One has to choose a word in English. If you want to be eligible for a literary prize you have to designate it as something (Robert Dessaix Quotes) [Anton] Chekhov is the most produced playwright in the world after Shakespeare, and most of the people in my sort of audience would have seen at least one of his plays (Robert Dessaix Quotes) Every time you watch a performance in the theatre, you know that this is just for you, and will never be the same again. It is quite exciting for me (Robert Dessaix Quotes) 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 what you are seeing is repeatable (Robert Dessaix Quotes) You turn your life into a work of art in order to redeem the ordinariness - a condition you are stuck with (Robert Dessaix Quotes) It is terribly important to maintain a national identity in a way that it probably wasn’t before (Robert Dessaix Quotes) I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small (Robert Dessaix Quotes) I think it is an important question of our lives - what is the meaning of literature to us as humans (Robert Dessaix Quotes) 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 Quotes) The Odyssey and Iliad say things about the human condition in ways we should re-acquaint ourselves with, and use as a prism to interpret though (Robert Dessaix Quotes) 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, and so that will be my next thing (Robert Dessaix Quotes) I’ve always had a fascination for the stage which has to do with transfiguration. One moment you are John Smith from East Brighton riding in your cart, and the next moment you are in a completely different world (Robert Dessaix Quotes) 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 more. Eastern Europe is still coming out of the Soviet uniform cultural era, but this kind of separation and nationalism is very obvious now in Western Europe (Robert Dessaix Quotes) One of the unfortunate things about creative writing courses is that they make people impatient. People feel that they have prepared themselves and that they must now do it. In fact there are positive incentives for doing so - universities are offering degrees for writing novels (Robert Dessaix Quotes) 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 (Robert Dessaix Quotes) 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 Quotes)