Linda Sue Park Quotes

I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that life had to offer. I think I wrote my very first piece of fiction at the age of 12, but then I didn't write any more for quite a long time.

In Sydney, I gave what was billed as a masterclass to bright students of writing at the University of Sydney. But the term 'masterclass' was possibly over-egging the pudding. All I could do was pass on some lessons from my own life, and the most obvious is that if you want to be a writer, you must first have been a reader.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.

I started writing my own things when I was about 8.

As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything I could find.

When people ask me for secrets to writing, I say, 'Read to write.'

I've been writing since I was really young.

I started writing stories as a child.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream.

I have always written. I was one of those kids who would always fill exercise books with girls and telepathic ponies.

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

I started writing as soon as I started reading.

I started writing when I was about thirteen.

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

A writer is always, always searching, even against her will, against all her better instincts, for the thread of a story. Everything is fodder. Everything is fuel. You can feel it coming on like the tingling of a sore throat. The brain never stops struggling to reshape every experience and feeling into a coherent narrative.