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
rain dirty heart
It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky.
art different stories
The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.
teacher soul great-education
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
white silence black
It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.
voice sound quiet
I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.