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Writer Quotes by Linda Sue Park

12 Writer quotes by Linda Sue Park

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Linda Sue Park shares a modest set of reflections that reveal how she thinks about storytelling and the discipline of writing. These snippets, while few, echo her thoughtful approach and can serve as a gentle prompt for anyone wrestling with a blank page.

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Reading for writers is like training for athletes.

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

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If you're trying to write about very strong horror, very strong fear or very strong emotion, it's easy to overwrite it.

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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…

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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…

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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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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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My son and I discovered Terry Pratchett's books together, when he was about eleven years old. He'd be reading on his own…

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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…

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When I'm writing, I try not to think things like, 'Gosh, I have to finish writing this book.' Books are very long…

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I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I…

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“[W]hat people truly desire is access to the knowledge and information that ultimately lead to a better life--the collected wisdom of the…

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“One step at a time, one day at a time, just today, just this day to get through.”

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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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“I have chosen the way of my death, which is something few of us are privileged to do.”

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

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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…

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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…

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I enjoy my family a lot. I have active teenagers, and they're in soccer and choral events.

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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…

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“Foxes were dreaded animals. They were not large or fierce, like the bears and tigers that roamed the mountains, but they were known to…

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If you're trying to write about very strong horror, very strong fear or very strong emotion, it's easy to overwrite it.

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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…

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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…

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“[W]hat people truly desire is access to the knowledge and information that ultimately lead to a better life--the collected wisdom of the ages found…

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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…

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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…

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