It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.


As quoted in: "How Did I Do That?" by Deborah Stead, in The New York Times (24 March 1991)

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V. S. Pritchett Quotes

It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.

It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.

It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.

It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.