V. S. Pritchett
V. S. Pritchett
Sir Victor Sawdon Pritchett CH CBE, was a British writer and literary critic...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth16 December 1900
talking two well-known
It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else.
important england born
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.
people academic used
Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience.
magic sin committed
There is more magic in sin if it is not committed.
losing thrive contact
Some writers thrive on the contact with the commerce of success; others are corrupted by it. Perhaps, like losing one's virginity,it is not as bad (or as good) as one feared it was going to be.
states committees
The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.
spiritual greed mind
The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.
spirit assertive cautious
The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
guilt sin feels
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
humorous hopeless uncouth
The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.
personality youth periods
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
dog attitude character
[London] is sentimental and tolerant. The attitude to foreigners is like the attitude to dogs: Dogs are neither human nor British, but so long as you keep them under control, give them their exercise, feed them, pat them, you will find their wild emotions are amusing, and their characters interesting.
writing stories novelists
The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.
fashion criticism stories
Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story.