But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed wasโperhaps rightlyโscathingly 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 KeneallyBut I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.
Thomas KeneallyAnd it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.
Thomas KeneallyAnd I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.
Thomas Keneally