Some writers thrive on the contact with the commerce of success; others are corrupted by it. Perhaps, like losing one's virginity,it is not as bad (or as good) as one feared it was going to be.
V. S. PritchettThe businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the lady is not at home, and he can spend his life preparing without fuss for the awful interview.
V. S. PritchettIt is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened.
V. S. PritchettWell, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
V. S. Pritchett