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
atlanta hurt lane passing took turn
Our turnovers really hurt us tonight. They (Greater Atlanta Christian) took away our passing lane and were able to turn those turnovers into points.
girls good knew model played team tough
We knew Model was a good team and were going to be able to go on some runs, but our girls played tough tonight.
writing details stories
Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.
writing mind landscape
Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.
like-love superstitions peculiar
The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.
novelists shows happened
It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened.
commitment america evil
Absolute Evil is not the kingdom of hell. The inhabitants of hell are ourselves, i.e., those who pay our painful, embarrassing, humanistic duties to society and who are compromised by our intellectually dubious commitment to virtue, which can be defined by the perpetual smear-word of French polemic: the bourgeois. (Bourgeois equals humanist.) This word has long been anathema in France where categories are part of the ruling notion of logique. The word cannot be readily matched in England or America.
talking two well-known
It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else.
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.
spiritual greed mind
The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.
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.