Tea Obreht Quotes

The sources of inspiration from my travels have been unending.

And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

Every part of the country has its story to tell, so I'm always looking for the next place to be.

I like going to places that are so different than where I'm from.

I've been traveling the world and experiencing different places, and you always discover new things.

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

Great storytellers in the past would go to an unknown land and return to tell the stories they've found. Those were also journeys into their inner psyches and that's still true today. An actor, a writer, does that as if saying, 'Here's what I've discovered about myself and about the world I'm in. I would like to share this with you.'

I like new experiences. It's one of the reasons I went to China.

I'm more obsessed with the idea of vacation than any one particular vacation spot. I love to explore new places and cultures.

Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!

Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.

Everybody learns from traveling. I think we all do.

As I traveled the world over, I traveled everywhere, and I learned so much.

I love seeing new places and meeting new people. I'm sort of addicted to traveling.

I love to see new things, and I love to learn. I always learn so much when I travel - that's the best thing.

I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.

I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people.

If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely alien to you and go traveling?

I've always wanted to broaden my horizons.

I'm really a believer in being in situations that feel new and awkward and different. And I love that feeling of being in motion - that sense you find when you're traveling.

I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages and everything. Yeah, I've got to do that sometime.

I love traveling. But I haven't had big, transformative experiences while on the road. When I go out on the road, it's to go out and get a story or do a promotional event.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

I have spent my life on the road waking in a pleasant, or not so pleasant hotel, and setting off every morning after breakfast hoping to discover something new and repeatable, something worth writing about.