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V S Pritchett
I am under...
I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10.
Source:...
The mark of...
The mark of genius is an incessant activity of the mind. Genius is spiritual greed.
All writers all...
All writers all people have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten,...
It is less...
It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it...
I shall never...
I shall never be as old as I was between 20 and 30.
Source: In NY Times, 16 Dec...
The wrongs of...
The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the...
It is often...
It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the...
Detective stories are...
Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.
Source: Books...
We do not...
We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are.
Source: The...
The secret of...
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
Source: Collected Stories,...