Tea Obreht Quotes

Tea Obreht
Serbian Novelist
Born: Sep 30, 1985
About Matter Me Mother Writing You
Related authors: Charles Dickens Ernest Hemingway Gustave Flaubert James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Paulo Coelho Walter Scott
At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism. Tea Obreht
Day End Of The Day About Magical Attachment Make Reader End Break Realism Belief Elements
The best fiction stays with you and changes you. Tea Obreht
Best You Changes Stays Fiction
You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either. Tea Obreht
Life You Else Someone Never Know Going Happen Either Your
For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia. Tea Obreht
Death Me Come Terms Lot Than Happened Former Grandfather Yugoslavia Harder
A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions. Tea Obreht
Family Own Superstitions Rituals
When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed. Tea Obreht
Mother Old Word Changed Way About Writer Never Liked Looked Wrote Because Came Years Goat Short Eight Wanted Decided Short Story Story Then Page Laptop Largely Desire
My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996. Tea Obreht
Family Egypt Lived
My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive. Tea Obreht
Me Colleague Through Faculty Road Supportive Came Very Agent Who Connected Publishing Actually
I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me! Tea Obreht
Me Dark Matter About Like Sure Subject Subject Matter Means
In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career. Tea Obreht
Life People Writing Mother Both Supportive Know Terms Massively Because Always Been Huge Influences Grandmother Career
I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters. Tea Obreht
Characters Am Very Influences Place Interested
What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling. Tea Obreht
Me Inspires Write Most Act Traveling
When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it. Tea Obreht
You Writing Focus Details About Than Different Place

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