Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere. V. S. Pritchett More Quotes by V. S. Pritchett More Quotes From V. S. Pritchett Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress. V. S. Pritchett mixturesactressesqueens The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed. V. S. Pritchett greedspiritualmind The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the primitive craving for art, the wit, paradox and beauty of shape, the longing to see a dramatic pattern and significance in our experience. V. S. Pritchett storieshandsart It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened. V. S. Pritchett happenednovelistsshows I shall never be as old as I was between 20 and 30. V. S. Pritchett The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel. V. S. Pritchett childhoodnovelmade It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues. V. S. Pritchett excesstonguegenius We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are. V. S. Pritchett wish Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere. V. S. Pritchett youthperiodspersonality She was a thinking bosom and one who overpowered her young lovers, all Sybil — a Romantic. V. S. Pritchett The kingdoms of fantasy and mirth are longlasting and not of this world. V. S. Pritchett The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. V. S. Pritchett findmonotonysecrethappiness In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth. V. S. Pritchett farhappenedbornfamily
