I enjoy my family a lot. I have active teenagers, and they’re in soccer and choral events. Linda Sue Park Read Quote
If you’re trying to write about very strong horror, very strong fear or very strong emotion, it’s easy to overwrite it. Linda Sue Park Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
