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1. "How could an alphabet--letters that didn't even mean anything by themselves--be important?But it was important. Our stories, our names, our alphabet. Even Uncle's newspaper.It was all about words.If words weren't important, they wouldn't try so hard to take them away." ~ Linda Sue Park
2. "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
3. "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
4. "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
5. "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
6. "Most writers adore their editors, and I'm no exception." ~ Linda Sue Park
7. "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
8. "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
9. "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
10. "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
11. "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
12. "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
13. "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
14. "When I was reading books for 'Seesaw Girl,' I came across several references to the fact that in the 11th and 12th centuries, Korean pottery was considered the finest in the world. I liked that - the idea of a little tiny country being the best at something." ~ Linda Sue Park
15. "Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions?" ~ Linda Sue Park
16. "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
17. "I have chosen the way of my death, which is something few of us are privileged to do." ~ Linda Sue Park
18. "Marial and Uncle were no longer by his side, and they never would be again, but Salva knew that both of them would have wanted him to survive, to finish the trip and reach the Itang refugee camp safely. It was almost as if they had left their strength with him, to help him on his journey." ~ Linda Sue Park
19. "One step at a time, one day at a time, just today, just this day to get through." ~ Linda Sue Park
20. "If he were older and stronger, would he have given water to those men? Or would he, like most of the group, have kept his water for himself?" ~ Linda Sue Park
21. "Reading for writers is like training for athletes." ~ Linda Sue Park
22. "[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 only in one place: a well-stocked library.To the teachers and librarians and everyone on the frontlines of bringing literature to young people: I know you have days when your work seems humdrum, or unappreciated, or embattled, and I hope on those days you will take a few moments to reflect with pride on the importance of the work you do. For it is indeed of enormous importance--the job of safeguarding and sharing the world's wisdom.All of you are engaged in the vital task of providing the next generation with the tools they will need to save the world. The ability to read and access information isn't just a power--it's a superpower. Which means that you aren't just heroes--you're superheroes. I believe that with all my heart.[Source: Park, Linda Sue. "Writer vs. Author." Horn Book Magazine (Nov/Dec 2013), p. 28)" ~ Linda Sue Park

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