Muriel Spark. A great quote, all right.

FROM A REVIEW OF MARTIN STANNARD'S BIOGRAPHY OF SPARK:

But she denied that her books were amoral or inhuman. They were simply true to life as everyone knew it really was but did not like to say. ‘I love all my characters; when I’m writing about them I love them most intensely, like a cat loves a bird.’

http://www.spectator.co.uk/print/books/5258633/the-goaway-bird.thtml

Jim Twiggs

From: NABOKV-L <NABOKV-L@HOLYCROSS.EDU>
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Sent: Sat, April 10, 2010 8:22:45 AM
Subject: [NABOKV-L] Cruelty: pop quiz for List members

[Carolyn Kunin sends the following pop quiz, since the List has been discussing the question of VN's "cruelty." -- SES]

Anyone care to hazard a guess as to the author who claimed to love his/
her characters "like a cat loves a bird"?
Carolyn

p.s. obviously not the obvious

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