Reading For Writers Is Like

With A Book Called 'keeping Score,' I Really Did Want To Write A Book About The Korean War, Because I Felt That It Is The Least Understood War In The American Cultural Imagination. So I Set Out With The Idea That Americans Didn't Know Much About The Korean War And That I Was Going To Try To Fix A Tiny Bit Of That.

I Do Think That Part Of Literature's Job Is To Comment On And Participate In The Social Issues Of The Time.

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!

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.

Why Was It That Pride And Foolishness Were So Often Close Companions?