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
It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else. — V. S. Pritchett Books 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 Beautiful writing Copy Share Image
Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist… — V. S. Pritchett Academic 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
We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are. — V. S. Pritchett Wish 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
[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
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
Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism. — V. S. Pritchett Art Copy Share Image
Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere. — V. S. Pritchett Curious 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
Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story. — V. S. Pritchett Criticism Copy Share Image
It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other… — V. S. Pritchett Happenings 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 secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. — V. S. Pritchett Congenial 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 Collections Copy Share Image
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere. — V. S. Pritchett Insincere 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
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
We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness. — V. S. Pritchett Action 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 Born Copy Share Image
The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists. — V. S. Pritchett Makers Copy Share Image
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