“I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.” TryingStillsProcessAnimalWritten Author:Tea Obreht
“In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.” YearsTwoMovingSpaceMessGrades Author:Tea Obreht
“My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.” ConnectedAgentsFacultyPublishingColleaguesSupportive Author:Tea Obreht
“When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.” WritingDifferentFocusDetails Author:Tea Obreht
“President Obama is casting his lot in the middle of a debate as old as America itself: Are we rugged individualists pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps? Or are we a nation of community, all connected and counting on one another?” AmericaNationsPresidentCommunityMiddleConnectedDebatePresident ObamaPullingCastingCountingRuggedBootstraps Author:Ron Fournier
“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.” KnowsWantWritingFirstsBookChildhoodYour Children Author:Tea Obreht
“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.” ThinkingFeelsShouldKindAgeFormYoungTakenWonderfulEncouragementArtisticEndeavorScopeAttemptingYoung WritersInexperience Author: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.” TermHappenedHarderFormerGrandfatherMy GrandfatherYugoslavia Author:Tea Obreht