15 Quotes by Paul Park

Every character in a story, I thought when I had folded up the phone, has both a purpose and a secret purpose.

That’s why it’s difficult to write about your own life. Any distortion feels like a betrayal.

And you’re disappointed in the story. I know you wanted a love story.

There’s nothing cruel about a vampire or a parasite, she said.

The heroine might be unsure. And the reader. But I don’t think the author should be.

Ah, how hard it was, even half-delirious or asleep, to conceive of something new!

We all have strategies to distract ourselves from what we cannot bear. Memory, for example, serves such a function.

Sometimes you’ve just got to let them scream, right?

Meta-fiction doesn't depend on the illusion that you're reading about real people.