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
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.
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.
friendship two trusted-friends
I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends.
perseverance winning victory
Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great
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.
years old-fashioned
I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.
personality trying forget
...try as i do, i can't recall her surname. Indeed, her very abstractedness and insubstantial personality seemed to say 'forget me'; she seemed to live in parenthesis;...
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.