“Rejection only made the attachment stronger. I realized that the impossibility of connection was a driving force behind his desire.”
— Deirdre Madden
“It is a kind of geisha containment, a shutteredness, a withdrawal and negation. It’s as if she is capable of sensing when people are on the point of knowing who she is and she sends them a subliminal denial.”
— Deirdre Madden
“I realise that a certain school of thought says that who we are is something we construct for ourselves. We build our self out of what we think we remember.”
— Deirdre Madden
“I watched plays with the kind of voracity with which small children read books; with the same visceral passion, the same complete trust in the imagination which is so difficult to sustain through the course of one’s whole life.”
— Deirdre Madden
“But this was the first occasion I had come across someone for whom art was a means of avoiding reality rather than confronting it head on, an idea so strange to me that I didn’t fully comprehend it at the time.”
— Deirdre Madden