My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
Tea ObrehtYou 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 ObrehtIn the end, all you want is someone to long for you when it comes time to put you in the ground.
Tea ObrehtWhen 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