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.
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.