Ruth Park quotes
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“Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.”
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“The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is.”
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“In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew.”
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“He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one by intent.”
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“"You know, Mouse," Tabby said, "a brilliant cat like me should have smart friends; people who can count to more than four." "I can count to more than four," answered Mouse, very offended. "And I can do hard sums, and I know geography and history, and I can knit and ..."”
-- Ruth Park
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Source : A. E. Hotchner (2010). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, p.11, Harper Collins
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“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”
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Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.93, Thomas Nelson
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“When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.”
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“I wanted to make a movie about the arbitrary nature of love.”
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“I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.”
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