Quotes by V. S. Pritchett

V. S. Pritchett

[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.

Attitude

Character

Dog

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

Natural

New Yorkers

Tense

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

Celebration

Character

Stories

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

Giving

Storytelling

Tales

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

Art

Stories

Yawning

I felt the beginning of a passion, hopeless in the long run, but very nourishing, for identifying myself with people who were not my own, and whose lives were governed by ideas alien to mine.

Ideas

Passion

Running

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

It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature’s latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?

Believe

Unsuccessful

What If

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

Happened

Novelists

Shows

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

Excess

Genius

Tongue

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Action

Art

Assertive

Attitude

Believe

Cautious

Celebration

Character

Committees

Contact

Details

Dog

Enough

Example

Excess

Genius

Giving

Greed

Habit

Happened

Home

Hopeless

Humorous

Ideas

Life

Like Love

Losing

Men

Mind

Natural

New Yorkers

Novelists

Passion

Peculiar

People

Periods

Personality

Running

Shows

Spirit

Spiritual

States

Stories

Story Writers

Storytelling

Suicidal

Superstitions

Tales

Talking

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Quotes by V. S. Pritchett

V. S. Pritchett

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

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

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

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

I felt the beginning of a passion, hopeless in the long run, but very nourishing, for identifying myself with people who were not my own, and whose lives were governed by ideas alien to mine.

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

It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature’s latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?

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

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

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