The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.
V. S. PritchettShort 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. PritchettThe 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.
V. S. Pritchett