150 Quotes by Muriel Spark

Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.

sooner or later I do what I want to do.

Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first

we have invented sex guilt to take our minds off the real thing.

Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.

Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.

Interviews can be stimulating. It depends on the intelligence of the interviewer.

Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes ...

The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.