Paul Park Quotes

United States, Author
October 1, 1954

Paul Claiborne Park is an American science fiction author and fantasy author. He teaches a course in reading and writing science fiction at Williams College. He has also taught at the Clarion West writing workshop and the Clarion workshop and was an instructor at Clarion West in 2011.

Corruption hates what is not corrupt.

Paul Park
- Corruption
- Corrupt
- Hates
We all have strategies to distract ourselves from what we cannot bear. Memory, for example, serves such a function.

Paul Park
- Memory
- Bear
- Strategies

This Christmas, every Christmas, Santa Claus is everywhere and Jesus is nowhere to be found.

Paul Park
The heroine might be unsure. And the reader. But I don’t think the author should be.

Paul Park
- Author
- Heroine
- Unsure
Every character in a story, I thought when I had folded up the phone, has both a purpose and a secret purpose.

Paul Park
- Character
- Purpose
- Story
The way to art was not to think too clearly, not to plan things out, but to follow where your heart and emotions led.

Paul Park
- Heart
- Art
- Emotions