I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10.
Life ā how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere. - V. S. Pritchett
Life ā how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
- V. S. Pritchett
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
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.
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. - V. S. Pritchett
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 often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues. - V. S. Pritchett
It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.
It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else. - V. S. Pritchett
It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else.
I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10. - V. S. Pritchett
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. - V. S. Pritchett
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.
I felt the beginning of a passion, hopeless in the long run, but very nourishing, for identifying myself with people who were not my own, and whose lā¦ - V. S. Pritchett
I felt the beginning of a passion, hopeless in the long run, but very nourishing, for identifying myself with people who were not my own, and whose lā¦
The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel. - V. S. Pritchett
The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.
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