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My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.

My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.

My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.

My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.

My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.

My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.

My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.

My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.

My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.

My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.

My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.

My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.

My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.

My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.

My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.