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
depressing men minutes
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.
queens actresses mixtures
Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.
natural tense native
A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.
dirty glasses sight
[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 spits of foam above the next glum wave of dirty buildings.
writing suicidal home
The businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the lady is not at home, and he can spend his life preparing without fuss for the awful interview.
action tranquility used
We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness.
looks world roles
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.
order giving use
On one plane, the very great writers and the popular romancers of the lower order always meet. They use all of themselves, helplessly, unselectively. They are above the primness and good taste of declining to give themselves away.
far happened
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.