Tea Obreht Quotes & Sayings
22 most famous Tea Obreht quotes and sayings (novelist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“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.”
“My grandfather and I were very close.”
“A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.”
“I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.”
“The best fiction stays with you and changes you.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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