V. S. Pritchett
Sir Victor Sawdon Pritchett was a British writer and literary critic.
Background
- Born in
- Ipswich
- Educated at
- Dulwich CollegeAlleyn's School
- Awards
- 🏆 Knight Bachelor🏆 Order of the Companions of Honour🏆 Commander of the Order of the British Empire🏆 Heinemann Award🏆 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere."
"Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough."
"I found people were telling stories to themselves without knowing it. It seemed to me that people were living a sort of small sermon that they believed in, but at the same time it was a fairy tale. Se…"
"It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me."
"Great artists are always far-seeing. They easily avoid the big stumbling blocks of fact. They rely on their own simplicity and vision. It is fact-fetichism that has given us those scores and scores of…"
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Timeline
1900
Born
Birth1997
Died
Death
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