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Thursday 3 June 2021

The Write Advice 152: PATRICK WHITE

 
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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