When I re-read the Odyssey, it felt like I was reading PD James or Minette Walters - you … - Robert Dessaix

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My ambition is to not have to work any more. In 10 years I want to stop, and I want to be living with my family, taking care of my house. I want to be a housewife.

Robert Dessaix

When I re-read the Odyssey, it felt like I was reading PD James or Minette Walters - you feel that you are sharing in something that hundreds of millions of people have read with love, and I think that this is worth holding onto. It is not a matter of canonical texts or elitism, which the universities are trying to make us wary about. It is about shared language and metaphor and experience and imagery and that is all good.

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

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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.

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I am coming from an older school, and I feel that you must learn to wait. There is that essay which was about the great notion of sitting on the mountain and waiting for the muses to cross the stream, and give you the symbols that would allow you to create. The word wait seems to me to be terribly important.

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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.

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I think it is an important question of our lives - what is the meaning of literature to us as humans.

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