Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience. 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 mixtures actresses queens The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed. V. S. Pritchett greed spiritual mind 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 stories hands art It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened. V. S. Pritchett happened novelists shows 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 childhood novel made 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 excess tongue genius 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 youth periods personality 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 find monotony secret happiness In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth. V. S. Pritchett far happened born family
