单项选择题

Many professions are associated with a particular stereotype. The (1) image of a writer, for instance, is (2) a slightly crazy-looking person, locked in an attic, writing (3) furiously for days (4) Naturally, he has his favorite pen and note-paper, or a beat-up typewriter, (5) he could not produce a readable word.
Nowadays, we know that such images (6) little resemblance to reality. But are they completely false In the case of at least one writer, it would (7) . Dame Muriel Spark, who (8) 80 in February, in many ways resembles this stereotypical "writer". She is certainly not crazy, and she doesn’t work in an attic. But she is rather (9) about the tools of her (10)
She (11) writing with a certain type of pen in a certain type of notebook, which she buys from a certain (12) in Edinburgh called James Thin. In fact, so (13) is she that, if someone uses one of her pens (14) , she immediately throws it away. And she claims she would have enormous difficulty writing in any notebook (15) those sold by James Thin. This could soon be a problem, as the shop no longer (16) them, and Dame Muriel’s (17) of 72-page spiral bound is nearly finished.
As well as her " (18) " about writing materials, Muriel Spark shares one other characteristic with the stereotypical "writer": her work is the most important thing in her life. It has stopped her (19) ; (20) her old friends and made her new ones, and driven her from London to New York to Rome. Today she lives in the Italian province of Tuscany with a friend.

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