Reading for writers is like training for athletes.

- Linda Sue Park

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

Libraries hold the wisdom of the world and the stories of the ages - available to everyone, free of charge!

- Linda Sue Park

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 …

- Linda Sue Park

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…

- Linda Sue Park

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 o…

- Linda Sue Park

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 o…

- Linda Sue Park

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

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

- Linda Sue Park