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> [When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-a-obreht/when-you-re-in-a-place-the-details-you-focus-on-are-different-than/)

[Tea Obreht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-a-obreht/)

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## More by Téa Obreht

> [“I felt my voice had fallen through and through me, and I couldn't summon it back to tell him or myself anything at all.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-a-obreht/i-felt-my-voice-had-fallen-through-and-through-me-and-i-couldn-t/)

[Téa Obreht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-a-obreht/)

> [I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-a-obreht/i-grew-up-in-cyprus-and-egypt-these-fantastic-places-i-remember-fondly/)

[Tea Obreht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-a-obreht/)

> [Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger’s wife, and the story of the deathless man. These…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-a-obreht/everything-necessary-to-understand-my-grandfather-lies-between-two/)

[Tea Obreht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-a-obreht/)

> [“People become very upset,' Gavo tells me, 'when they find out they are going to die' . . . 'They behave very strangely,' he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-a-obreht/people-become-very-upset-gavo-tells-me-when-they-find-out-they-are/)

[Téa Obreht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-a-obreht/)

> [“By the time I got to high school, I had learned to be more cautious about revealing my dreams. I was reading—and therefore writing—adventure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-a-obreht/by-the-time-i-got-to-high-school-i-had-learned-to-be-more-cautious/)

[Téa Obreht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-a-obreht/)

> [No matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to confess, and an unleashed secret is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-a-obreht/no-matter-how-grave-the-secret-how-imperative-absolute-silence/)

[Tea Obreht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-a-obreht/)

> [“To me, the persistence of my grandfather's rituals meant that he was unchanged, running on discipline and continuance and stoicism. I didn't notice, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-a-obreht/to-me-the-persistence-of-my-grandfather-s-rituals-meant-that-he-was/)

[Téa Obreht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-a-obreht/)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-a-obreht/at-the-end-of-the-day-it-s-about-the-reader-s-attachment-to-and/)

[Tea Obreht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-a-obreht/)

> [ “I started to feel that nagging sense of shame again, an acute awareness of my own inability to share in his \[my grandfather's\] optimism.” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-a-obreht/i-started-to-feel-that-nagging-sense-of-shame-again-an-acute/)

[Téa Obreht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-a-obreht/)

> [I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-a-obreht/i-think-the-mythology-of-death-really-ran-away-with-me-when-i-was/)

[Tea Obreht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-a-obreht/)

> [A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-a-obreht/a-lot-of-writers-that-i-know-have-told-me-that-the-first-book-you/)

[Tea Obreht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-a-obreht/)

> [When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-a-obreht/when-you-re-in-a-place-the-details-you-focus-on-are-different-than/)

[Tea Obreht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-a-obreht/)

> [“Knowing, above all, that I would come looking, and find what he had left for me, all that remained of The Jungle Book in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-a-obreht/knowing-above-all-that-i-would-come-looking-and-find-what-he-had-left/)

[Téa Obreht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-a-obreht/)

> [My mother always says that fear and pain are immediate, and that, when they're gone we're left with the concept, but not the true…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-a-obreht/my-mother-always-says-that-fear-and-pain-are-immediate-and-that-when/)

[Tea Obreht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-a-obreht/)

> [“But children die how they have been living-with hope. They don't what is happening, so they expect nothing, they don't ask you to hold…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-a-obreht/but-children-die-how-they-have-been-living-with-hope-they-don-t-what/)

[Téa Obreht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-a-obreht/)

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