On one plane, the very great writers and the popular romancers of the lower order always meet. They use all of themselves,… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
The businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Some writers thrive on the contact with the commerce of success; others are corrupted by it. Perhaps, like losing one's virginity,it is… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
All writers - all people - have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
A short story is. . .frequently the celebration of character at bursting point. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
