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)

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

I love writing about people on the road.

Cynthia Kadohata

I have so much respect for people who do blue-collar work because I come from that background myself.

Cynthia Kadohata

I hate thinking about writer's block! I don't have writer's block much, knock on wood, but if I do, I think it's usually because I haven't done enough research and am therefore unable to create a fully realized world.

Cynthia Kadohata

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

You feel almost a part of the wheat when you're sitting in a combine.

Cynthia Kadohata