"I love writing about people on the road."

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Cynthia Kadohata

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes

“Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.”
“When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent of the knowledge of the ancient world. In the ancient world, most of the knowledge was destroyed. Every emperor of China who came in wiped out everything that came before them, to the point that the country completely forgot its past.”
“You must fight social media fire with social media water.”
“A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of tender kinship from the earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge. The best introduction to astronomy is to think of the nightly heavens as a little lot of stars belonging to one's own homestead.”
“But even though she was attractive, there was something else about her that caught his eye. She was intelligent, he could sense that right away, and confident, too, as if she were able to move through life on her own terms. To him, these were the things that really mattered. Without them, beauty was nothing.”
“I love the fact that this art might somehow affect the way people see, and thus open a window on the world.”
“Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.”
“I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot.”

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