For better or worse, I have begun another book. It is slow and painful, and not a bit what I want to say, but that is always the way, I'm afraid. Also the prospect of having it with me for months, if not years, disgusts me — until I begin to realise that when I am not in that state I really feel rather lost. It is a case of one misery or another.
Letter to (his cousin) Peggy Garland [25 January 1950]
Use the link below to read a 2019 article by Australian writer MADELEINE WATTS about her fascination with the work of fellow writer (and Australia's only winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature) PATRICK WHITE (1912–1990):
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