Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark
Dame Muriel Sarah Spark, DBE, CLit, FRSE, FRSL was a Scottish novelist. In 2008, the Times newspaper named Spark as No. 8 in its list of 'the 50 greatest British writers since 1945'...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 February 1918
Muriel Spark quotes about
mind facts fiction
Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.
funny humor laughing
We often laughed at others in our house, and I picked up the craft of being polite while people were present and laughing later if there was anything to laugh about.
laughter laughing people
I have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth.
artist wonderful century
How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century,
rudeness euphemism frankness
Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.
memorable boredom should
One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.
romantic-love doe impossible
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
tyrants revolution chance
A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.
bible people criticism
People who quoted the Scriptures in criticism of others were terrible bores and usually they misapplied the text. One could prove anything against anyone from the Bible.
friendship two trusted-friends
I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends.
technology men medicine
No medicine man these days can afford to be without a portable tape recorder. Without the aid of this modern device, which may be easily concealed in the undergrowth of the jungle, the old tribal authority will rapidly become undermined by the mounting influenece of modern skepticism.
birth english-novelist pity rather
I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.
alert english-novelist life prime recognize time whatever
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
education english-novelist leading miss putting
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.