“I often have trouble falling asleep at night, so when I'm lying in bed...” — Linda Sue Park Quote

“I often have trouble falling asleep at night, so when I'm lying in bed I think up stories. That's where I do a lot of my thinking. I also get a lot of ideas while I'm reading - sometimes reading someone else's stories will make me think of one of my own.”

“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!”

“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.”

“I buy a lot of random books, and it's really hard to immediately fall asleep if I've been staring at a screen, so reading and trying to put my phone away maybe an hour before I go to sleep are two of my go-to strategies before bed.”

“Dillian Whyte hasn't got any power. He hit me with his best shot, didn't even bother me, and he knows that. I hit him with my best shot and he was asleep and I hit him with another one and I woke him up.”

“After I saw 'The Exorcist' it took me a while before I could fall asleep - that girl's head turning around and throwing up all that pea soup!”