V. S. Pritchett Quote

Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.


"Rider Haggard: Still Riding", p. 25 - The Tale Bearers: English and American Writers (1980)


Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.

Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.

Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.

Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.