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
being-in-love imagination long
[My novel] took up the sweetest part of my mind and the rarest part of my imagination; it was like being in love and better. All day long when I was busy [...], I had my unfinished novel personified almost as a secret companion and accomplice following me like a shadow wherever I went, whatever I did.
virtue application
Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.
romantic-love doe impossible
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
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.