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V.S. Pritchett quotes: The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.

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

V.S. Pritchett quotes: Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.

Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.

V.S. Pritchett quotes: It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.

It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.

V.S. Pritchett quotes: Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story.

Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story.

V.S. Pritchett quotes: Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

V.S. Pritchett quotes: The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

V.S. Pritchett quotes: Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

V.S. Pritchett quotes: Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.

Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.

V.S. Pritchett quotes: Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

V.S. Pritchett quotes: We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are.

We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are.

V.S. Pritchett quotes: How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

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

V.S. Pritchett quotes: The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.

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

V.S. Pritchett quotes: It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened.

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

V.S. Pritchett quotes: It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.

It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.

V.S. Pritchett quotes: The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.

The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.

V.S. Pritchett quotes: It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else.

It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else.

V.S. Pritchett quotes: The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.

The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.

V.S. Pritchett quotes: Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.

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 quotes: Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.

Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.

V.S. Pritchett quotes: I shall never be as old as I was between 20 and 30.

I shall never be as old as I was between 20 and 30.

V.S. Pritchett quotes: The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.

The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.

V.S. Pritchett quotes: The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.

The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.

V.S. Pritchett quotes: A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.

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

V.S. Pritchett quotes: The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.

The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.

V.S. Pritchett quotes: Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of himself as a work of art.

Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of himself as a work of art.

V.S. Pritchett quotes: We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness.

We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness.

V.S. Pritchett quotes: It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?

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 quotes: It's all in the art. You get no credit for living.

It's all in the art. You get no credit for living.

V.S. Pritchett quotes: There is more magic in sin if it is not committed.

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

V.S. Pritchett quotes: Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.

V.S. Pritchett quotes: A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale.

A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale.

V.S. Pritchett quotes: A short story is ... frequently the celebration of character at bursting point.

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

V.S. Pritchett quotes: It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.

It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.

V.S. Pritchett quotes: On short stories:something glimpsed from the corner of the eye, in passing.

On short stories:
something glimpsed from the corner of the eye, in passing.

V.S. Pritchett quotes: One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.

One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.

V.S. Pritchett quotes: In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

V.S. Pritchett quotes: I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10.

I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10.