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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.
V. S. Pritchett
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V. S. Pritchett
Age: 96 †
Born: 1900
Born: December 16
Died: 1997
Died: March 20
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Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.
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The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.
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It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else.
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The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.
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The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.
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We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are.
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Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.
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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.
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It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened.
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