Home / Authors / Linda Sue Park

Linda Sue Park

Linda Sue Park Quotes

Author

Linda Sue Park is a Korean-American author renowned for her children's literature. Her works are celebrated for their deep cultural insights and focus on universal human emotions. Park's works include 'Dear Mr. Hatcher' and the 'Magic Tree House' series, which have won numerous awards and have gained the love of readers worldwide.

Filter quotes by topic

All Book Reading Writing Ideas Thinking Years Library Stories World Feels Half Ifs Korean Men Months Reader Source Stills Taken Together

Famous Linda Sue Park Quotes

“It was all about words. If words weren't important, they wouldn't try so hard to take them away.”

Ideas Freedom Thoughts Words Freedom Of Speech

Book:When My Name Was Keoko

Source: When My Name Was Keoko

“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.”

Knows Want Writing Trying Book Ideas War Felt Bits Imagination Understood Tiny Score Korean Korean War

Author: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 of ideas while I'm reading - sometimes reading someone else's stories will make me think of one of my own.”

Thinking Ideas Sometimes Stories Lying Night Fall Reading My Own Trouble Bed Falling Asleep

Author: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 others, it is no longer his alone. It belongs to the world.”

Ifs Men World Ideas Taken Stealing Intellectual Property Trickery Stealth

Book:A single shard

Source: A single shard

About the Author

Born: March 25, 1960
Known for: Author
Quotes: 29

Related Topics

Book Reading Writing Ideas Thinking Years Library Stories World Feels Half Ifs Korean Men Months Reader Source Stills Taken Together

Popular Topics

People Ifs Thinking Knows Men World Way Want Love Life Inspirational Needs Giving Feels Should Writing Trying Years Mind Firsts

Books & Sources

A single shardRelated source material

When My Name Was KeokoRelated source material

Beast of StoneRelated source material

Gracie Under the WavesRelated source material

The One Thing You'd SaveRelated source material

Trust No OneRelated source material

Similar Authors

Alberto ManguelBrowse related quotes
Judy BlumeBrowse related quotes
Donalyn MillerBrowse related quotes
Stephen D. KrashenBrowse related quotes
Paul AusterBrowse related quotes
Lawrence Clark PowellBrowse related quotes
Ray BradburyBrowse related quotes
Jorge Luis BorgesBrowse related quotes
Jeffery DeaverBrowse related quotes
George SaundersBrowse related quotes