Tea Obreht Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• My mother always says that fear and pain are immediate, and that, when they're gone we're left with the concept, but not the true memory.

  Tea Obreht

  Mother, Pain, Memories

• 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.

  Tea Obreht

  Mother, Writing, Careers

• 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.

  Tea Obreht

  Mother, Black And White, Eight

  "Téa Obreht" by Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14 & 21, 2010.

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