Tea Obreht Quotes

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• In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.
• My grandfather and I were very close.
• 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.
• The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
• A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
• 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.
• I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.
• I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
• I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
• I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
• I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.
• I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
• In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
• My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.
• My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
• What inspires me most to write is the act of 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.
• A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to…
• Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel…
• 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…

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