Assertive Quote by V. S. Pritchett

The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.

— V. S. Pritchett

There is more magic in sin if it is not committed.

— V. S. Pritchett

Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

— V. S. Pritchett

The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.

— V. S. Pritchett

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

It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened.

— V. S. Pritchett

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

A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.

— V. S. Pritchett

A short story is. . .frequently the celebration of character at bursting point.

— V. S. Pritchett

The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.

— V. S. Pritchett

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

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

— V. S. Pritchett