"Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for 'Seesaw Girl,' eight months for 'Shard,' three years for 'When My Name Was Keoko!' The publisher takes another year and a half to work on the book, so altogether each book can take up to three or four years to publish."

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Source : Scholastic Interview, www.scholastic.com.

Linda Sue Park

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“Poetry is good for unleashing images.”
“Merce is my favorite artist in any field,”
“If you're living life from a place of fear, you're not free to take risks or pursue your dreams. If your energy is expended in avoiding failure or rejection, then that energy is used to stay safe, instead of being available to create the life you envision.”

Source : "Manage Fear So It Doesn’t Manage You" by Lauren Mackler, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2009.
“Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.”

Source : Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Managing People is Like Herding Cats”, Executive Excellence Pub
“You got to harden yourself. Make, like, a shell around you. But not everyone can do it. If they got nothing to hang on to some of them screw up. Theyâ€™re not in the game no more.”
“It's not like I studied abroad, I went to school and university in New Delhi. So many people in India think of me on the level of big artists, which is wonderful - and also an enormous responsibility.”
“Las Vegas is a major family destination. Nevada casinos have become American family values now. It's considered just fine to go into one of these windowless scary gambling-malls, drink yourself silly, lose your ***** at roulette, and then go ogle showgirls with breast implants. Republicans do this now. Working-class folks do it in polyester stretch pants. It's normal.”

Source : "Greetings from Burning Man!". www.wired.com. November 01, 1996.

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