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Cynthia Kadohata Quotes

For me, books are music for my mind and my imagination. When I am stuck in something I’m writing, I simply read my way out of being stuck. You can never waste time reading Picture Quote #1

Watch out for life... It’s harder than it looks Picture Quote #1

I love writing about people on the road Picture Quote #1

For me, books are music for my mind and my imagination. When I am stuck in something I’m writing, I simply read my way out of being stuck. You can never waste time reading Picture Quote #1

If you hated white people, they would just hate you back, and nothing would change in the world; and if you didn’t hate them after the way they treated you, you would end up hating yourself, and nothing would change that way, either. So it was no good to hate them, and it was no good not to hate them. So nothing changed Picture Quote #1

At the time I was writing ‘Weedflower,’ my friend Naomi Hirahara was writing a book about Japanese-American flower farmers. She knew quite a few elderly farmers and put me in touch with four or five of them who had been in camps during WWII. Some, like my father, were reluctant to talk about their experiences Picture Quote #1

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Weedflower’ was already in the copyediting phase when I heard about the Newbery award, so it didn’t really influence my writing of that book, but since then, I have become more aware of having an audience Picture Quote #1

I try to find my deepest, often hidden feelings about what’s working and what’s not. This is difficult because I do lie to myself without being aware that that’s what I’m doing Picture Quote #1

I have so much respect for people who do blue-collar work because I come from that background myself Picture Quote #1

My sister had taught me to look at the world that way, as a place that glitters, as a place where the calls of the crickets and the crows and the wind are everyday occurrences that also happen to be magic Picture Quote #1

Some days I think she was really miserable, because she cried a lot. In a way, I’d had to steel my heart to her crying. You need to steel yourself to a lot of things when someone in your family is really sick Picture Quote #1

I know a lot about when I was a little girl, because my sister used to keep a diary. Today I keep her diary in a drawer next to by bed. I like to see how her memories were the same as mine, but also different Picture Quote #1

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You could see the roads crisscrossing over the fields. When cars went by, far away, the beams were so bright they seemed to be ropes of light pulling the cars behind Picture Quote #1

It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published Picture Quote #1

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For me, books are music for my mind and my imagination. When I am stuck in something I’m writing, I simply read my way out of being stuck. You can never waste time reading. (Cynthia Kadohata Quotes) Watch out for life... It’s harder than it looks (Cynthia Kadohata Quotes) I love writing about people on the road (Cynthia Kadohata Quotes) For me, books are music for my mind and my imagination. When I am stuck in something I’m writing, I simply read my way out of being stuck. You can never waste time reading (Cynthia Kadohata Quotes) If you hated white people, they would just hate you back, and nothing would change in the world; and if you didn’t hate them after the way they treated you, you would end up hating yourself, and nothing would change that way, either. So it was no good to hate them, and it was no good not to hate them. So nothing changed (Cynthia Kadohata Quotes) At the time I was writing ‘Weedflower,’ my friend Naomi Hirahara was writing a book about Japanese-American flower farmers. She knew quite a few elderly farmers and put me in touch with four or five of them who had been in camps during WWII. Some, like my father, were reluctant to talk about their experiences. (Cynthia Kadohata Quotes) Weedflower’ was already in the copyediting phase when I heard about the Newbery award, so it didn’t really influence my writing of that book, but since then, I have become more aware of having an audience. (Cynthia Kadohata Quotes) I try to find my deepest, often hidden feelings about what’s working and what’s not. This is difficult because I do lie to myself without being aware that that’s what I’m doing. (Cynthia Kadohata Quotes) I have so much respect for people who do blue-collar work because I come from that background myself. (Cynthia Kadohata Quotes) My sister had taught me to look at the world that way, as a place that glitters, as a place where the calls of the crickets and the crows and the wind are everyday occurrences that also happen to be magic (Cynthia Kadohata Quotes) Some days I think she was really miserable, because she cried a lot. In a way, I’d had to steel my heart to her crying. You need to steel yourself to a lot of things when someone in your family is really sick (Cynthia Kadohata Quotes) I know a lot about when I was a little girl, because my sister used to keep a diary. Today I keep her diary in a drawer next to by bed. I like to see how her memories were the same as mine, but also different (Cynthia Kadohata Quotes) You could see the roads crisscrossing over the fields. When cars went by, far away, the beams were so bright they seemed to be ropes of light pulling the cars behind (Cynthia Kadohata Quotes) It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published (Cynthia Kadohata Quotes)