Linda Sue Park Quotes
A mistake made with good in your heart is still a mistake, but it is one for which you must forgive yourself.
Libraries hold the wisdom of the world and the stories of the ages - available to everyone, free of charge!
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.
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!
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.
I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.
I used to sit home with my computer and write. After the Newbery, I probably spend more than half my time on the road.
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.
The boy was still looking at him. "Your family?" he asked.Salva shook his head."Me, too, " the boy said. He sighed, and Salva heard that sigh all the way to his heart.
How could an alphabet—letters that didn't even mean anything by themselves—be impo
