Linda Sue Park Quotes

Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.

I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.

Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through books.

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.

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!

Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.

I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of my life and I loved it. I've always been a reader. I think living all those stories served me to naturally take that next step to creating.

I've always loved books.

He would talk to them of stories and books, and explain to them how stories wanted to be told and books wanted to be read, and how everything that they ever needed to know about life and the land of which he wrote, or about any land or realm that they could imagine, was contained in books. And some of the children understood, and some did not.

It’s not just the adage ‘write what you know,’ it’s about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience you’ve collected up to now to help you dive into the things you don’t know.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Books do furnish a room.

The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.

Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.

I really have lived in books. Books are friends. They are some of the friends that make you who you are.

I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to write them I have to read and to think for years at a time about the same period of time.

I love my books.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.

Read as much as you can, and then sit down and write.

It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.

A book store is a treasure chest. Every time you walk in one, you strike gold.

I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.

Books are like my one and only joy.