25 Quotes by 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 something.

You are obviously writing out of experience and so the boundaries are always blurred, it is just that sometimes it would seem that you are playing with fire a little bit by choosing someone that obviously existed.

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.

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 values and the circumstances of your life. My Ithaca is in the Mental realm and this doesn’t mean that you don’t have to go back to it.

I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small.

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.

You turn your life into a work of art in order to redeem the ordinariness – a condition you are stuck with.