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
writing stories novelists
The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.
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.
writing mind landscape
Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.
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.
I shall never be as old as I was between 20 and 30.
novelists shows happened
It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened.