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— V. S. Pritchett"One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential."
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Like 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. Pritchett
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I've been lucky enough to win an Oscar, write a best-seller - my other dream would be to have a painting in the Louvre. The only way that's going to happen is if I paint a dirty one on the wall of the gentlemen's lavatory.
— David Niven
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