Sir Victor Sawdon Pritchett (1900–97) was an English short-story writer, critic, essayist, biographer, and novelist.
Born in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, Pritchett wrote five novels but did not enjoy doing so. He preferred writing short stories, which began to appear in magazines in the 1920s. He is remembered chiefly for such short story collections as The Spanish Virgin and Other Stories (1930,) You Make Your Own Life (1938,) When My Girl Comes Home (1961,) and The Camberwell Beauty (1974.)
Pritchett wrote constantly and lived solely by his pen from 1923. He also wrote travel essays, biographies, reviews, essays. He was a regular contributor to The New Statesman, where he eventually became a literary editor.
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Life—how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
—V. S. Pritchett
Topics: Life and Living
The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
—V. S. Pritchett
Topics: Nationality, Canada
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
—V. S. Pritchett
Topics: Youth
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
—V. S. Pritchett
Topics: Happiness
The State, that craving rookery of committees and subcommittees.
—V. S. Pritchett
Topics: Committees
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
—V. S. Pritchett
Topics: Family
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
—V. S. Pritchett
The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.
—V. S. Pritchett
Topics: Books
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