Ruth Park Quotes

"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
(Related: Character, World, Writing)

"Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be."
- Ruth Park
(Related: Passion, Writing)

"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
(Related: Nature, May, Now, Risk)