Quotes by Cynthia Kadohata

About Cynthia Kadohata:

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.
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The jungle changes a man.

Cynthia Kadohata

Why would a book in which hardly anything happened for most of the time eat at me so much? It was the weirdest thing

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And yet we couldn't leave--it was if the rocks were holding us there. I mean, they were only rocks. But for some reason, those rocks made lonely feel good.

Cynthia Kadohata

I cried and cried. But then I had to stop. One thing about me was that when I was having a serious wish session, I tried never to wish impossible wishes. I might have wished for sixteen crayons instead of eight, but even when I was little, I never wi...

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I love writing about people on the road.

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

In 1982, when I was almost 26 years old, I decided I wanted to write fiction. I'd majored in journalism in college, and I'd always assumed I would write nonfiction.

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

Cynthia Kadohata

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.

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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.

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

Cynthia Kadohata

Lynn said, "The blue of the sky is one of the most special colors in the world, because the color is deep but see-through both at the same time. What did I just say?" "The sky is special." "The ocean is like that too, and people's eyes." She turned h...

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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, li...

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

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Author Bio

  • NameCynthia Kadohata
  • DescriptionJapanese-American children's writer
  • BornJuly 2, 1956
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • WorksKira-Kira
  • AwardsNewbery Medal