Linda Sue Park Quotes

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.

I Used To Sit Home With My Computer And Write. After The Newbery, I Probably Spend More Than Half My Time On The Road.

Most Writers Adore Their Editors, And I'm No Exception.

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.

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.

I Do Think That Part Of Literature's Job Is To Comment On And Participate In The Social Issues Of The Time.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.