“Years of fighting, andm before that, a lifetime on the cusp of it. Conflict we didn't understand...had been at the center of… — Téa Obreht Conflict Copy Share Image
“I started to feel that nagging sense of shame again, an acute awareness of my own inability to share in his [my… — Téa Obreht Shame 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
“We were seventeen, furious at everything because we didn't know what else to do with the fact that the war was over.” — Téa 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
My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year. — Tea Obreht 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
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
A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether… — Tea Obreht Book Copy Share Image
Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one… — Tea Obreht Age Copy Share Image
Suddenness," he says. " You do not prepare, you do not explain, you do not apologize. Suddenly, you go. And with you,… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
“...fear and pain are immediate, and that, when they're gone, we're left with the concept, but not the true memory--why else...would anyone… — Téa Obreht Birth Copy Share Image
Kelly Link's prose is conveyed in details so startling and fine that you work up a sweat just waiting for the next… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
“I stood still for a few moments, watching him go, a tall, thin, noiseless shadow. Then the realization of it rushed over… — Téa Obreht Shadow 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
“To me, the persistence of my grandfather's rituals meant that he was unchanged, running on discipline and continuance and stoicism. I didn't… — Téa Obreht Discipline Copy Share Image
Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger’s wife, and the story of the deathless… — Tea Obreht Army Copy Share Image
“Knowing, above all, that I would come looking, and find what he had left for me, all that remained of The Jungle… — Téa Obreht Books Copy Share Image
“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… — Téa Obreht Children Copy Share Image
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