Patrick White Quotes

“But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other Australian writers' work and origins unless they were his friends, he was a genius, and Voss one of the finest works of the modernist era and of the past century.”
― Thomas Keneally

“History is not acceptable until it has been sifted for the truth.”
― Patrick White, Voss

“He shuddered to realize there could never be an end to the rescue of men from the rubble of their own ideas.”
― Patrick White, Riders in the Chariot