Deirdre Madden said this quote

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

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

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