Cynthia Kadohata Quotes

Cynthia Kadohata — American Writer born on July 02, 1956,

Cynthia Kadohata is a Japanese American children's writer known best for winning the Newbery Medal in 2005. She won the U.S. National Book Award in 2013. Kadohata was born in Chicago, Illinois. Her first published short story appeared in The New Yorker in 1986... (wikipedia)

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

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.

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.

It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.

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