Muriel Spark
Dame Muriel Sarah Spark was a Scottish novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist.
Background
- Born in
- Edinburgh
- Educated at
- Heriot-Watt UniversityJames Gillespie's High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire🏆 Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres🏆 Golden PEN Award🏆 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature🏆 Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full."
"I am putting old heads on your young shoulders," Miss Brodie had told them at that time, "and all my pupils are the crème de la crème."
"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 intrus…"
"It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist."
"She writes well and concisely, and this has tended to obscure the psychological superficiality and sheer petty malice of her content."
Works & Publications
No works or publications documented yet.
Timeline
1918
Born
Birth2006
Died
Death
Influenced By
Thinkers whose ideas shaped Muriel's philosophy
No known influences documented.
Influenced
Thinkers whose work was shaped by Muriel's ideas
No influenced thinkers documented yet.
Source Attribution
Information about Muriel Spark is sourced from curated knowledge bases and cross-referenced for accuracy. Influence relationships are scored by thematic overlap and historical plausibility.
Related Thinkers
See all →
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"He also knew when to stop. In the fine art of deceit and personal advancement as in any other calling this …"
— Mervyn Peake"I told him to open his eyes, that I didn’t want to kill him with his eyes shut, for God’s sake."
— Joanna Russ"It is for the philosophic student to trace the train of thought which underlies the magicians practice; to …"
— James Frazer"What’s the point of our living all these centuries if we haven’t grown up even a little?"
— Poul Anderson"There is nothing which rots morale more quickly and more completely than poor communication and indecisiven…"
— Lyndall Urwick"Why is it so hard to keep the mind concentrated, and to live up to our good resolutions? The problem is the…"
— Colin Wilson
