I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me! — Tea Obreht Dark Copy Share Image
“I felt my voice had fallen through and through me, and I couldn't summon it back to tell him or myself anything… — Téa Obreht Copy Share Image
“Grandfather recently died. He died alone on a trip away from home in a town where no one expected him to be” — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young. — Tea Obreht Death Copy Share Image
“It is as if, having stepped into a room, a man can no longer see the door through which he has come,… — Téa Obreht Copy Share Image
“These stories run like secret rivers through all the other stories of his life.” — Téa Obreht Life Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break… — Tea Obreht Attachment Copy Share Image
death should be celebrated...when you put something in the ground you always know where it is — Tea Obreht Death Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, despite all the other great things that literature does in society and in a person's life,… — Tea Obreht Books Copy Share Image
No matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to confess, and an unleashed secret… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
“Believe me, Doctor, if your life ends in suddenness you will be glad it did, and if it does not you will… — Téa Obreht Death Copy Share Image
“It's a sad thing to see, because as far as I know, this man Gavo had done nothing to deserve being shot… — Téa Obreht Funeral Copy Share Image
In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
“Zora was a woman of principle, an open atheist. At the age of thirteen, a priest had told her that animals had… — Téa Obreht Atheist Copy Share Image
For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come… — Tea Obreht Death Copy Share Image
“The dead are celebrated. The dead are loved. They give something to the living. Once you put something into the ground, Doctor,… — Téa Obreht Copy Share Image
When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
“But he was so young then that later he was only able to remember fragments of what happened next: the lull of… — Téa Obreht Copy Share Image
“By the time I got to high school, I had learned to be more cautious about revealing my dreams. I was reading—and… — Téa Obreht Dreams Copy Share Image
When your fight has purpose—to free you from something, to interfere on the behalf of an innocent—it has a hope of finality.… — Tea Obreht Attachment Copy Share Image
When men die, they die in fear", he said. "They take everything they need from you, and as a doctor it is… — Tea Obreht Children Copy Share Image
“Death had size an color and shape, texture and grace. There was something concrete to it. In that room, Death had come… — Téa Obreht Death Copy Share Image
“Trying to write without reading is like venturing out to sea all by yourself in a small boat: lonely and dangerous. Wouldn't… — Téa Obreht Reading Copy Share Image
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… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters. — Tea Obreht Character Copy Share Image
I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly. — Tea Obreht Cyprus Copy Share Image
“She'll have a time with that baby and only a tiger for a husband.” — Téa Obreht Baby Copy Share Image
I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is. — Tea Obreht Animal Copy Share Image
In the end, all you want is someone to long for you when it comes time to put you in the ground. — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
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… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
