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
mind opinion motto
No mind should submit their mind to another mind He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still -- that's my motto. I won't be brainwashed.
country believe afterlife
I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't.
dream character wonder
I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.
years important remember
These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognise the years of one's prime, always remember that.
being-in-love love-is hovering
Being in love is something like poetry. Certainly, you can analyze and expound its various senses and intentions, but there is always something left over, mysteriously hovering between music and meaning.
calm
Beware the ire of the calm.
years people remember
It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.
divorce ideas upset
There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce ...
beauty travel falling-in-love
It isn't necessarily the great and famous beauty spots we fall in love with. As with people, so with places. Love is unforeseen, and we can all find ourselves affectionately attached to the minor and the less obvious.
virtue application
Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.
girl men want
it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.
girl giving age
Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.
flower believe men
From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers.
girl lying drawing
It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up.