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
art hands stories
The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the primitive craving for art, the wit, paradox and beauty of shape, the longing to see a dramatic pattern and significance in our experience.
art yawning stories
Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.
writing stories novelists
The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.
character stories celebration
A short story is. . .frequently the celebration of character at bursting point.
fashion criticism stories
Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story.
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.
defense performed scoring team
Our defense performed well tonight. But we weren't scoring and the team started to get frustrated.
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.
far happened
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
happiness
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
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.
couple extremely good next proud returning season starters
I'm extremely proud of this group. With 4 of our 5 starters returning next season we feel very good about the next couple of seasons.
tongue genius excess
It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.
childhood made novel
The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.