Tea Obreht Quotes

Enjoy the top 23 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Tea Obreht.

“Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I dont think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.”
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“When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.”

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“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.”

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“A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.”

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My grandfather and I were very close.

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“I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.”

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The best fiction stays with you and changes you.

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“When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.”

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“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 like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.”

— Tea Obreht

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 what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.

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My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.

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I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!

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“I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.”

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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.

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I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.

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“I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.”