Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere. — V. S. Pritchett Curious Copy Share Image
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth. — V. S. Pritchett As far as Copy Share Image
The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists. — V. S. Pritchett Makers Copy Share Image
A short story is. . .frequently the celebration of character at bursting point. — V. S. Pritchett Bursting Copy Share Image
A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale. — V. S. Pritchett Edges Copy Share Image
The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive. — V. S. Pritchett Assertive Copy Share Image
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere. — V. S. Pritchett Disguises Copy Share Image
It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else. — V. S. Pritchett Authors Copy Share Image
I felt the beginning of a passion, hopeless in the long run, but very nourishing, for identifying myself with people who were… — V. S. Pritchett Aliens Copy Share Image
The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it. — V. S. Pritchett Evidence Copy Share Image
Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It… — V. S. Pritchett Depressing Copy Share Image
It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful? — V. S. Pritchett Believe Copy Share Image
Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of… — V. S. Pritchett Art Copy Share Image
It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the… — V. S. Pritchett Excess 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 Able Copy Share Image
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 Giving Copy Share Image
The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the… — V. S. Pritchett Answers Copy Share Image
[London is] like the sight of a heavy sea from a rowing boat in the middle of the Atlantic… One lives in… — V. S. Pritchett Asphalt Copy Share Image
[London] is sentimental and tolerant. The attitude to foreigners is like the attitude to dogs: Dogs are neither human nor British, but… — V. S. Pritchett Amusing 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… — V. S. Pritchett Appearance Copy Share Image
Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning.… — V. S. Pritchett Cameras Copy Share Image
The difference between farce and humour in literature is, I suppose, that farce strums louder and louder on one string, while humour… — V. S. Pritchett Books Copy Share Image
Absolute Evil is not the kingdom of hell. The inhabitants of hell are ourselves, i.e., those who pay our painful, embarrassing, humanistic… — V. S. Pritchett Absolutes Copy Share Image
I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10. — V. S. Pritchett Language 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 Business Copy Share Image
The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed. — V. S. Pritchett Activity Copy Share Image
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. — V. S. Pritchett Congenial Copy Share Image
We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness. — V. S. Pritchett Action Copy Share Image
Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story. — V. S. Pritchett Criticism Copy Share Image
The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees. — V. S. Pritchett Committees Copy Share Image
Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress. — V. S. Pritchett Actresses Copy Share Image
Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism. — V. S. Pritchett Art Copy Share Image
We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are. — V. S. Pritchett Better Copy Share Image
Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women. — V. S. Pritchett Armchairs Copy Share Image
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit. — V. S. Pritchett Commit 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 Business Copy Share Image
The present has its élan because it is always on the edge of the unknown and one misunderstands the past unless one… — V. S. Pritchett Edges Copy Share Image
![“[London is] like the sight of a heavy sea from a rowing boat in the middle of the Atlantic… One lives in it, afloat but half submerged in a heavy flood of brick, stone, asphalt, slate, steel, glass, concrete, and tarmac, seeing nothing fixable beyond a few score white spires that splash up like…” quote by V. S. Pritchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/692/v-s-pritchett-13789_asphalt_london-is-like-the-sight-of-a-heavy-sea_2888600.jpg)
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