Muriel Spark

Muriel Spark (1918-2006), also Dame Muriel Sarah Spark, was a Scottish writer, novelist, poet and critic. She is best known for the novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war.

All our friends are going or gone and we survive
amongs the dead and dying as on a battlefield.
- Memento Mori

• One's prime is elusive.

- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn