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.
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 bac… - Tea Obreht
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 bac…
- Tea Obreht
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. - Tea Obreht
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.
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
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.
I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters. - Tea Obreht
I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.
The best fiction stays with you and changes you. - Tea Obreht
The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma. - Tea Obreht
I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
At the end of the day, despite all the other great things that literature does in society and in a person's life, I think that we read to escape. And… - Tea Obreht
At the end of the day, despite all the other great things that literature does in society and in a person's life, I think that we read to escape. And…
I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is. - Tea Obreht
I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
Come on, is your heart a sponge or a fist? - Tea Obreht
Come on, is your heart a sponge or a fist?
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