Patrick White
Patrick White
Patrick Victor Martindale Whitewas an Australian writer who is widely regarded as one of the most important English-language novelists of the 20th century. From 1935 to his death, he published 12 novels, three short-story collections and eight plays...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 May 1912
CountryAustralia
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We hoped that we could come out and get the first and the energy would pick us up, but they kept getting the bounces.
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We believe the land speaks to anyone who goes there and sees the site. It is very moving.
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Here I hope to continue living, and while I still have the strength, to people the Australian emptiness in the only way I am able.
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I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.
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Well, good luck to you, kid! I'm going to write the Great Australian Novel.
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They prevented us from getting that first goal. Had we have gotten that maybe we would have got a little confidence and maybe come back.
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During the early, comparatively uneventful months I hovered between London and New York writing too hurriedly a second novel, The Living and the Dead.
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The failure of The Aunt's Story and the need to learn a language afresh made me wonder whether I should ever write another word.
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I just had a great time out there. When you get chances, you've got to bury them, and I did.
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I have tried to celebrate the park, which means so much to so many of us, in The Eye of the Storm and in some of the shorter novels of The Cockatoos.
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If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect
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She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from the story, literature brought with it a kind of gentility for which she craved.