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Writing Quotes by Patrick White
- Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry…
- I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.
- Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The…
- I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.
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- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden