V. S. Pritchett Quotes

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

V. S. Pritchett

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• There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.

  

  Iman
  • Want
  • Create
  • Follow

• When I was 6, I opened my mouth and didn't stop singing. I had a voice and wanted to use it.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Stop
  • Singing
  • Voice

• From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.

  

  Ferdinand Lassalle
  • Money
  • Moment
  • Talent

• I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • People
  • Writing
  • Women

• In the modern era, our nation experienced constant hardship and difficulties. The Chinese nation reached the most dangerous period. Since then, countless people with lofty ideals to realise the great revival of the Chinese nation rose to resist and fight, but failed one time after another.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Want
  • You
  • Me

• I feel very comfortable with my trajectory because I do have a life; I can go on the subway, you know? And I've been able to do that my entire career, and I have friends who are huge movie stars and can't go on the subway, and I feel like that sucks.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Movie

• A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Man
  • Law
  • Respect

• My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'

  

  Kamala Harris
  • May
  • Mother
  • You

• In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Good
  • Power
  • Culture

• I do know what my first meal in the next world would be... Spaghetti Aglio e Olio, heavy on everything.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • World
  • Know
  • First

• On the one hand, parents want their children to swim expertly in the digital stream that they will have to navigate all their lives; on the other hand, they fear that too much digital media, too early, will sink them.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Fear

• It's good for the NHL to implement different things - the 3-on-3, money that'll go to players - to try to get us to play at a higher level.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Good
  • Different
  • Money

• As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Know
  • Proud
  • Band

• One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Ideas
  • Feelings

• The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Science
  • Process
  • Interior

• The NCI scientific programme leaders meet regularly to ensure that we are not ignoring highly original proposals and that we are not creating an unbalanced grant portfolio.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Meet
  • Ignoring
  • Portfolio

• Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Men
  • Happy

• You see, you could never do a sketch like that these days. The audience is too uninformed. I blame the Americans. Nation of obese, violent, pig-ignorant, bible-thumping morons contaminating world culture. That’s why I spend most of my time here in France. … Beautiful, isn’t it? Just look at those olive trees. Interviewer: This is Santa Barbara.

  

  John Cleese
  • Time
  • World
  • Why

• People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon.

  

  James Garner
  • People
  • Nature

• The funny thing is most people don't approach me because they are scared, and that's fine, I want to keep it that way. But the thing is if you're not scared or get over it you learn that sometimes what you're scared of is really what you shouldn't be scared of.

  

  Rutger Hauer
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Scared

• I had been in a professional boys' choir, and as a boy soprano, you're aware that your voice has an expiration date.

  

  Alexander Chee
  • Boy
  • Professional

• Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

  

  V. S. Pritchett