V. S. Pritchett Quotes

A short story is always a disclosure.

‘The firm’-a proud Victorian word. It evokes the lost sense of Victorian regard for the pride of people in their daily trade.

The poet is a master of the quotidian, of conveying a whole history in two or three lines that point to an exact past drama and intensify a future one.

What Chekhov saw in our failure to communicate was something positive and precious: the private silence in which we live, and which enables us to endure our own solitude.

It is well known that, when two or three authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else.

Dickens was not the first or the last novelist to find virtue more difficult to portray than the wish for it.