Quotes by : Deirdre Madden

But this was the first occasion I had come across someone for whom art was a means of avoiding reality....

I realise that a certain school of thought says that who we are is something we construct for ourselves.....

Rejection only made the attachment stronger. I realized that the impossibility of connection was a driving....

I watched plays with the kind of voracity with which small children read books; with the same visceral....

It is a kind of geisha containment, a shutteredness, a withdrawal and negation. It's as if she is capable....