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

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Source : "National Book Award Winner Cynthia Kadohata on Self-Editing: 'It involves a lot of flailing around.'". Interview with Maryann Yin, www.adweek.com. November 25, 2013.

Cynthia Kadohata

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“Only he [Gordon Gekko] is a lot smarter than [Donald] Trump.”
“The true distinction ... between what is called a fine Regiment, and an indifferent one will ever, upon investigation, be found to originate in, and depend upon the care, or the inattention, of the Officers belonging to them.”
“Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself”

Source : "Mathematical Circles Squared : A Third Collection of Mathematical Stories and Anecdotes" by Howard Whitley Eves, (p. 125), 1972.
“Don't plan with what is in your pocket; plan with what is in God's pocket”
“When it's cold, water freezes into ice; when it's warm, ice melts into water. Similarly, when you are confused, essence freezes into mind; when you are enlightened, mind melts into essence.”
“Normally I can balance two or three things. The problem is when you're out of work and don't have anything to balance. I think people assume you're always busy. You go through dry spells.”
“Body does what mind prefers.”
“Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head.”

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