S2 E60: Sarah Sentilles, Author of Draw Your Weapons
This Is the Author
English - June 27, 2017 15:22 - 6 minutes - 1.51 MB - ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsArts business entrepreneur entrepreneurship marketing health finance leadership entrepreneurs interview fitness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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"It took me 10 years to write DRAW YOUR WEAPONS. I wrote it after seeing two photographs. The first photograph I saw was a picture of a man and he was holding a violin, and I read the newspaper story about him. It turned out he was a conscientious objector during World War II who’d protested the internment of Japanese Americans, and was put in prison. While he was there, he built a violin. And the newspaper story I read about him was about his grandson completing that violin and giving it to him on his birthday. And everything in my body said, 'you have to write about this person.'"