V. S. Pritchett Quotes
The difference between farce and humour in literature is, I suppose, that farce strums louder and louder on one string, while humour varies its note, changes its key, grows and spreads and deepens until it may indeed reach tragic depths.
Quotes to Explore
-
I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
-
I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
-
I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
-
The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
-
You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
-
It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
-
Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.
-
Im not your biggest girly girl.
-
A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
-
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
-
The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
-
Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
-
It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
-
I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
-
One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
-
The key is to work with people who are passionate about storytelling and who have a similar sensibility of the type and nature of the stories that you want to tell.
-
I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
-
Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.
-
I love these sort of documentaries, which you might turn on late on a Saturday night - like, say, 'The Alma Cogan Story.' But they are ripe for spoofing, because the presenters are always so serious and anxious to make themselves look like rather attractive and interesting people.
-
I feel like 2012 was the first year I actually felt like a grown-up.
-
I definitely I prefer to sing in the car. I don't sing in the shower, maybe its because that's the one time I don't need to talk to anyone so I should just shut up, otherwise I'm just, you know, jibber jabber.
-
Your own creations are your own children; you gave life to them, so you’ll always have, if not more passion to them, more connections to them.
-
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
-
The difference between farce and humour in literature is, I suppose, that farce strums louder and louder on one string, while humour varies its note, changes its key, grows and spreads and deepens until it may indeed reach tragic depths.
