Iris

Look lady, whatever you think, I want this to work too. Not for you, not for [the director] Mike's obsession, but for her. So until you try sitting down behind that bloody typewriter — just you and the ghost of a dead woman — don't you give any more of that shit about playing games.

– Scriptwriter Kelly (Philip Holden) to Sammie (Helen Morse), the actor playing Iris

...an astonishing book. I think the life-force, the love of life in it and the will — God there's so many things — someone talking about their childhood, about society, love and repression; struggle ... but through a poet's vision.

– Actor Helen Morse on Iris Wilkinson's 1938 novel The Godwits Fly, in The Listener, 24 December 1983

Morse says that Wilkinson's need to have children in spite of being unmarried would have been not only accepted but accommodated today in a way unheard of in the 30s.

– Actor Helen Morse on social changes explored in telefilm Iris, The Listener, 24 December 1983

Brilliant, beautiful, difficult and doomed.

– Derek Challis on his mother Iris Wilkinson, in his book The Book of Life: A Life of Robin Hyde