V. S. Pritchett

"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…"

"The New York Times archive for V.S. Pritchett"

"Yes, well I had all my serious illnesses in late middle age. And now I'm just stuck, I'm afraid."

"The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it."