Linda Sue Park Quotes

• A mistake made with good in your heart is still a mistake, but it is one for which you must forgive yourself.

  Linda Sue Park

  Forgiveness, Mistake, Heart

  Linda Sue Park (2002). “When My Name Was Keoko”, p.80, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You burn the paper, but not the words. You silence the words, but not the thoughts. You kill the thoughts only if you kill the man. And you will find that his thoughts rise again in the minds of others - twice as strong as before.

  Linda Sue Park

  Strong, Men, Silence

  Linda Sue Park (2002). “When My Name Was Keoko”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Libraries hold the wisdom of the world and the stories of the ages - available to everyone, free of charge!

  Linda Sue Park

  Age, Library, Stories

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• Reading for writers is like training for athletes.

  Linda Sue Park

  Reading, Athlete, Training

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• Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions?

  Linda Sue Park

  Pride, Companion, Foolishness

  Linda Sue Park (2002). “A single shard”

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• I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a reader than to be a writer!

  Linda Sue Park

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

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• I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something or both, and for that to become a part of them and work into their own lives.

  Linda Sue Park

  Book, Thinking, Want

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• If a man is keeping an idea to himself, and that idea is taken by stealth or trickery-I say it is stealing. But once a man has revealed his idea to others, it is no longer his alone. It belongs to the world.

  Linda Sue Park

  Taken, Men, Ideas

  Linda Sue Park (2002). “A single shard”

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• My son and I discovered Terry Pratchett's books together, when he was about eleven years old. He'd be reading on his own and would start to laugh, and then eagerly read the passage aloud to me--and I'd do the same to him! Pratchett's books became a shared source of delight for us back then, and they still are today.

  Linda Sue Park

  Book, Reading, Son

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• I often have trouble falling asleep at night, so when I'm lying in bed I think up stories. That's where I do a lot of my thinking. I also get a lot of ideas while I'm reading - sometimes reading someone else's stories will make me think of one of my own.

  Linda Sue Park

  Lying, Fall, Reading

  Scholastic Interview, www.scholastic.com.

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• I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.

  Linda Sue Park

  Jobs, Thinking, Issues

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• With a book called 'Keeping Score,' I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, because I felt that it is the least understood war in the American cultural imagination. So I set out with the idea that Americans didn't know much about the Korean War and that I was going to try to fix a tiny bit of that.

  Linda Sue Park

  War, Book, Writing

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• What I like most: Reading well-written sources that take me to another world for hours at a time - and being able to call that work! Also, of course, finding a gem of information that is either exactly what I was looking for, or else fits perfectly into the story in some way.

  Linda Sue Park

  Reading, Information, Able

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• All my books take a long time to research. I spend several months researching before I start writing, and in the middle of writing I often have to stop and look up stuff. At my local library, I am one of the best customers! The research takes several months.

  Linda Sue Park

  Book, Writing, Long

  Scholastic Interview, www.scholastic.com.

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• My first publication was a haiku in a children's magazine when I was 9 years old. I received one dollar for it! I gave the check to my dad for Christmas, and he framed it and hung it over his desk.

  Linda Sue Park

  Children, Dad, Years

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• Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for Seesaw Girl, eight months for Shard, three years for When My Name Was Keoko! The publisher takes another year and a half to work on the book, so altogether each book can take up to three or four years to publish.

  Linda Sue Park

  Girl, Book, Taken

  Scholastic Interview, www.scholastic.com.

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• I used to sit home with my computer and write. After the Newbery, I probably spend more than half my time on the road.

  Linda Sue Park

  Home, Writing, Half

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• Most writers adore their editors, and I'm no exception.

  Linda Sue Park

  Editors, Adore, Exception

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• God bless Interlibrary Loan. I pay a lot of library fines. In the case of 'A Single Shard,' I was using books that hadn't been checked out in 30 years, so I didn't feel too bad.

  Linda Sue Park

  Book, Years, Library

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• In my family and among Korean-Americans, there just is no occasion that people would get together without bibimbap. It's something that people eat when they're wanting to celebrate or have a good time with friends.

  Linda Sue Park

  People, Together, Good Times

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