Creative Quotations from V. S. Pritchett (1900-1997)

Creative Quotations from . . .

V. S. Pritchett
(1900-1997) born on Dec 16

English "novelist, short-story writer, critic". He was known for his ironic style and his lively portraits of middle-class life.

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The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.

It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.

"We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are."

""The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.""

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"On Anthony West's "H G Wells," Random House 84, in "New Yorker," 30 Jul 1984."
R:	"'Midnight Oil,' vol. 2, ch. 6, 1971."
A:	""Books in General," 1953."
N:	""The Living Novel and Later Associations," 1964."
K:	""Collected Stories," Random House 82; in NY "Times," 24 Apr 1982."