One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.
V. S. PritchettThe peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.
V. S. PritchettOn one plane, the very great writers and the popular romancers of the lower order always meet. They use all of themselves, helplessly, unselectively. They are above the primness and good taste of declining to give themselves away.
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