"All my books take a long time to research. I spend several months researching before I start writing, and in the middle of writing I often have to stop and look up stuff. At my local library, I am one of the best customers! The research takes several months."

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Source : Scholastic Interview, www.scholastic.com.

Linda Sue Park

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Long Quotes

“Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.”
“Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, youâ€™re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense hunger. To resist takes tremendous conscious effort, you donâ€™t dare let your guard down for an instant. The void puts you on edge, makes your movements tentative and clumsy. But as the climb continues, you grow accustomed to the exposure, you get used to rubbing shoulders with doom, you come to believe in the reliability of your hands and feet and head. You learn to trust your self-control.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Feb 11, 2012
“It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.”
“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.”
“Much better to be crazy provided you know what/where sane is.”
“It is impossible to state in words how much this team means to me, how much Hulu means to me.”

Source : "Hulu CEO Jason Kilar to Exit" by Paul Bond, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 4, 2013.
“He wasn't, but producers are by definition annoying because they have a different agenda from you. They're trying to stop you spending money and you're trying to not spend money, but at the same time we're great artists.”
“It is deeply interesting to notice also where the citizens were put to work. Each was set to labor on the bit of all opposite his home... I do not say that men are not called to service in far distant places... But I do say that for the vast majority the task that God appoints is the task lying at the door. The nearest thing is God's thing. The nearest duty is God's duty. He who cannot find his service there is little likely to be useful anywhere.”

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