Tea Obreht Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

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

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  Grandma, Writing, Belgrade

• What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.

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  Writing, Inspire

• 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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  Writing, Focus, Details

• 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.

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  Book, Writing, Childhood

  "Conversation: Tea Obreht, Author of ‘The Tiger’s Wife’". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. April 1, 2011.

• 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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  Mother, Writing, Careers

• 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.

  Tea Obreht

  Block, Writing, Brain

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