73 Quotes by Linda Sue Park

A journey, eh?” Crane-man continued whittling. “It is a good thing for a man to see the world if he can. Where will you go?

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.

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.

They patched the bag again. The drilling went on.

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

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!

And one day at a time, the group made its way to Kenya. More than twelve hundred boys arrived safely. It took them a year and a half.

The bag sprang a leak. The leak had to be patched. The patch sprang a leak. The crew patched the patch. Then the bag sprang another leak. The drilling could not go on.

There was always plenty of fruit that clung stubbornly to the seed. He would nibble and suck at it to get every last shred, making it last for hours.