Author: Muriel Spark

Cited by

• Martyn Bedford (1)
  • IN: Acts of Revision (1996) Fiction , British
    EPIGRAPH: The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. 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 intrusion, from the Latin root prefix meaning in and the stem trudo, I thrust. Miss Mackay's method is to thrust a lot of information into the pupil's head; mine is a leading out of knowledge, and that is true education as proved by its root meaning.
    FROM: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, (1961), Novel, UK
• Jeanette Winterson (1)
  • IN: Lighthousekeeping (2004) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Remember you must die.
    FROM: Momento Mori, (1959), Novel, UK
• Alison Moore (1)
  • IN: The Lighthouse (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: She became a tall lighthouse sending out kindly beams which some look for welcome instead of warnings against the rocks.
    FROM: The Curtain Blown by the Breeze, (1961), Short story, UK
• Ian Rankin (1)
  • IN: Let It Bleed (1995) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The more sophisticated readers simply repeated the Italian proverb, ‘If it isn’t true, it’s to the point.’
    FROM: The Public Image, (1968), Novel, UK
• Daniel Silva (1)
  • IN: The Black Widow (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.
    FROM: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, (1961), Novel, UK
• Brock Clarke (1)
  • IN: The Happiest People in the World (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "I could kill him.... But would that be enough?"
    FROM: The Finishing School, (2004), Novel, UK