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!

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  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!

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  Escribir, pensar, dar

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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

  Libro, Pensar, Querer

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• Si un hombre se guarda una idea para sí mismo, y esa idea es tomada con sigilo o engaño, yo digo que es un robo. Pero una vez que un hombre ha revelado su idea a los demás, ya no es sólo suya. Pertenece al mundo.

  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.

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  Jobs, Thinking, Issues

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• Con el libro "Keeping Score" quería escribir un libro sobre la guerra de Corea, porque creo que es la guerra menos comprendida en el imaginario cultural estadounidense. Así que partí de la idea de que los estadounidenses no sabían mucho sobre la Guerra de Corea y que yo iba a intentar arreglar un poco esa situación.

  Linda Sue Park

  Guerra, Libro, Escritura

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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.

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  Libro, Escritura, Largo

  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.

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  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.

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  Home, Writing, Half

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

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  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.

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  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.

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  People, Together, Good Times

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