Ruth Park quotes

“Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.”
-- Ruth Park

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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.”
-- Ruth Park

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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.”
-- Ruth Park

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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.”
-- Ruth Park

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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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“Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.”

Source : A. E. Hotchner (2010). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, p.11, Harper Collins

“I can write better than anyone who can write faster,”

“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”

“I was so thankful that my parents trusted me enough and had enough faith in my abilities to let me follow my passion and try to do something great, even if I might fail.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.93, Thomas Nelson

“Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.”

“At the same time the Muslims are commanded to exercise self-restraint as much as possible. Force is a dangerous weapon. It may have to be used for self-defense or self-preservation, but we must always remember that self-restraint is pleasing in the eyes of Allah. Even when we are fighting, it should be for a principle not out of passion.”

“When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.”

“I wanted to make a movie about the arbitrary nature of love.”

“I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Don't say the words I wanted to hear from Ren.”