In the blurb for William Yang’s 1987 portrait of David Malouf:
He asks me to lunch and we chat about this and that. Socially he’s very relaxed. He seems so agreeable that I wonder whether there is a tough person behind the charm. When we are about to do the photos there is a knock on the door. It is John Stapleton, a journalist whom we both know. He was in the area and has called in for a chat and a cup of coffee. I think that we’ll never get the photos done now. But David is quite firm. In the politest way he tells John that we are busy, that we have work to do and to come back another day. I am impressed.
He asks me to lunch and we chat about this and that. Socially he’s very relaxed. He seems so agreeable that I wonder whether there is a tough person behind the charm. When we are about to do the photos there is a knock on the door. It is John Stapleton, a journalist whom we both know. He was in the area and has called in for a chat and a cup of coffee. I think that we’ll never get the photos done now. But David is quite firm. In the politest way he tells John that we are busy, that we have work to do and to come back another day. I am impressed.