White's fiction employs humour, florid prose, shifting narrative vantage points
and a stream of consciousness technique. In 1973, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
—and was the only Australian citizen to have been awarded the Literature prize until J.
Conversation is imperative if gaps are to be filled, and old age, it is the last gap but one.
Loonies speak their own language, like educated people.
:Collection of short stories.
If she had only been able to touch him, they might perhaps have pooled their secrets and discovered the reason for human confusion. But as that wasn't possible, she went outside, into the garden.
In my books I have lifted bits from various religions in trying to come to a better understanding; I've made use of religious themes and symbols. Now, as the world becomes more pagan, one has to lead people in the same direction in a different way.
The essence of what you have to say you pick up before you're twenty.
I've lost interest in the theatre because you can't get what you want ever. I used to think it would be wonderful to see what you had written come to life. Here in Australia it's very hard to get an adequate performance because of the state of the theatre; but even if you have the best actors in the world it's never what you visualised. One can't say all one wants to say, one can't convey it.