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. PritchettIt is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened.
V. S. PritchettIt is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?
V. S. Pritchett