Quotes by Tea Obreht

Tea Obreht

A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.

Ritual

Superstitions

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 or not. It calls you back.

Book

Childhood

Writing

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.

Attachment

Make Or Break

The End Of The Day

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.

Encouragement

Taken

Thinking

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 stories run like secret rivers through all the other stories of his life – of my grandfather’s days in the army; his great love for my grandmother; the years he spent as a surgeon and a tyrant of the University. One, which I learned after his death, is the story of how my grandfather became a man; the other, which he told to me, is of how he became a child again.

Children

Lying

Running

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.

Grandfather

Term

Yugoslavia

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

Character

Influence

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

Dark

Matter

Mean

In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.

Grandfather

Memories

Stones

In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.

Careers

Mother

Writing

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Agents

Attachment

Black And White

Book

Careers

Character

Childhood

Children

Dark

Details

Egypt

Eight

Encouragement

Faculty

Fiction

Focus

Grandfather

Influence

Inspire

Land

Lying

Make Or Break

Matter

Mean

Memories

Mother

Moving

My Family

Ritual

Running

Stones

Superstitions

Supportive

Sweat

Taken

Term

The End Of The Day

Thinking

Two

Waiting

Writing

Years

Yugoslavia

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Quotes by Tea Obreht

Tea Obreht

A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.

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 or not. It calls you back.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.

In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.

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