The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.
V. S. PritchettHow extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
V. S. PritchettLike many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.
V. S. PritchettThe wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.
V. S. PritchettPrep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game.
V. S. Pritchett