72 Quotes by V. S. Pritchett

It's all in the art. You get no credit for living.

Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story.

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.

We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness.

Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.

A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale.

It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.

It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?

I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10.