From David Malouf's 'The Writing Life'

Following are a few from the books referred in 'The Writing Life':

- Kipling. (Kim, Something of myself)

- Frederick Manning (The Middle parts of fortune -- Her Privates We)

- "A good many writers of fiction have also in the course of a busy writing life produced memorable poems, George Meredith for one, Thackeray for another and several poets have produced single novels that stand as undisputed masterpieces: one thinks immediately of Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield, Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time, Morike's novella, Mozart's Journey to Prague. But few writers have an equal reputation in both fields: Goethe in Germany, Pushkin in Russia, Hugo in France; in England Hardy, maybe Kipling. D. H. Lawrence is surely one of the few."

- Les Murray (Lunch and Counter Lunch) 

- Peter Porter (to look up, poems)

- Patrick White's "Memoirs of Many in One"

"As the last work of a writer with a long and distinguished career, Memoirs of Many in One is not what some commentators would wish such work to be; the noble culmination of all he can do. It was this sort of expectation that had worried Mann in the case of Felix Krull.

Memoirs, like Krull, is an escape from all that; a breaking free from the heavy burden that expectation sets on the writer's freer spirits; a return to what, for the writer himself, a Tolstoy, a Mann, a White, had always been at the core of his writing, of curiosity and discovery, of self exploration in pure play."