Patrick White

“I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.”

“If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.”

“I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. Those of a middle generation, if charitable or sentimental, subscribe to the wisdom myth,...”

“As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.”

“In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.”

“I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.”