Life Quote by Téa Obreht Download Open image ““These stories run like secret rivers through all the other stories of his life.”” — Téa Obreht ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Life Rivers Stories Secret Rivers Stories Stories Life Stories Run
“I read the stories I've been told in my own way and make a narrative of them. Narrative is a chain of links, and… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“I shall tell them this story against the background of the county I grew up in and along the river I know and do… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“There are two stories for every life; the one you live, and the one others tell.” — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.” — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
“A writer is a river. Everything flows and changes and we're never the same person as the one who wrote yesterday's story.” — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
“We're all storytellers. We choose to tell ourselves the kind of tale we want to hear.” — Danielle Ganek Copy Share Image
“My whole life seemed to spill out into the river, swirling away from me, everything I had ever been or ever wanted to be.” — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Life is like the river, sometimes it sweeps you gently along and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere.” — Emma Smith 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
Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
I value the experiences that come with life too much to sit by and not put my full effort into them. — Jim Miller Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I've spent much of my life calling my intuition "something wrong with me.” — Deanna L. Lawlis Copy Share Image
When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take… — Kym Marsh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson. — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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