57 Quotes by 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.

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.

My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.

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

I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.

When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.

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

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

I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.