63 Quotes by Patrick White

His legend will be written down, eventually, by those who are troubled by it.

Mrs. Trotter made a sincere though wrong sound, while opening her handbag to look for help.

The map? I will first make it.

I am compelled into this country.

In general,' Voss replied, 'it is necessary to communicate without knowledge of the language.

You have taken the important, essential core of the apple, including (one must not forget) the nasty pips, and scales (I do not know what you call those little things) which must be spat out.

Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.

As it is I'm a dated novelist, whom hardly anybody reads, or if they do, most of them don't understand what I am on about. Certainly I wish I had never written Voss, which is going to be everybody's albatross.

But the purpose and nature are never clearly revealed. Human behaviour is a series of lunges, of which, it is sometimes sensed, the direction is inevitable.