Belgrade Quote by Tea Obreht Download Open image “I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.” — Tea Obreht ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Belgrade Grandma My grandma Visiting Writing
I wrote about my journey through the country of Serbia exactly as I have always written my books, my literature. — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I've done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write. — Daphne Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 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 at all.” — Téa Obreht Copy Share Image
I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly. — Tea Obreht 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 man. These… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
“People become very upset,' Gavo tells me, 'when they find out they are going to die' . . . 'They behave very strangely,' he… — 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 therefore writing—adventure… — Téa 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 is a… — 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 notice, and… — Téa 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 magical realism. — Tea Obreht 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 grandfather's] optimism.” — Téa Obreht Copy Share Image
I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young. — Tea Obreht 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 you want… — Tea Obreht 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
They fought as they revelled, fast, fiery, and true, And, though victors, they left on the field not a few; And they who survived… — Thomas Davis Copy Share Image
I made a tape recording of a bridge collapsing and I wanted to play it suddenly and very loudly when people were walking over… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
“I think of myself as a political idiot. Idiot, in ancient Greece, denoted a common person without access to knowledge and information--all women, by… — Jasmina Tešanović Copy Share Image
We believe Slobodan Milosevic must be buried in his country, in Belgrade, at the Alley of Great Men. — Ivica Dacic Copy Share Image
I would think a lot more would be done to demand justice, to demand that officials in Belgrade have a serious investigation. — William Walker Copy Share Image
Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
“Now I am writing this diary in English, which for me is not the language of intimacy or love, but an attempt at distance… — Jasmina Tešanović Copy Share Image
Our government should do everything it can to ensure the successful prosecution of those responsible for the murders of U.S. citizens abroad. It should… — Tim Bishop Copy Share Image
The fact is that there was a long war in which Serbia and its capital Belgrade were bombarded and attacked with missiles. It was… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Far in foreign fields from Dunkirk to Belgrade Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade. — Thomas Davis Copy Share Image
I don't think that if I had spent the time that I was in, say, Belgrade, writing about my time in Trieste, which is… — Jessa Crispin Copy Share Image
