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 ParkI 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 ParkWith 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 ParkI 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