It is a good thing to go to Paris for a few days if you have had a lot of trouble, and that is my advice to everyone except Parisians.
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
After nearly collapsing under the pressures of poverty, loneliness, and an addiction to Dexedrine, Spark sought help for her drug use and began to work seriously on a first novel, The Comforters (1957...
Back in 1944 when people were normal and there was a world war on,' says Paul to his son, 'it was a serious thing to be a spy.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority.
I offer this advice without fee; it is included in the price of this book.
[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 a...
For those who like that sort of thing, said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, That is the sort of thing they like.
These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognise the years of one's prime, always remember that.
If you don’t remember Death, Death reminds you to do so. And if you can’t cope with the facts the next best thing is to go away for a holiday.
Her name and memory, after her death, flitted from mouth to mouth like swallows in summer, and in the winter they were gone.
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
you're quite wrong there, Collie. One does miss sex. The body has a life of it's own. We do miss what we haven't had, you and I. Biologically. Ask Sigmund Freud. It is revealed in dreams. The absent t...
I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.
If I had my life to live over again, I would form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is not another practice whic...
Being dead's a drug', he says, 'you'll get hooked on it.
Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.
[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]
People who want to write books do so because they feel it to be the easiest thing they can do. They can read and write, they can afford any of the instruments of book writing such as pens, paper, comp...