Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist Tatjana Soli.
Last updated on December 3, 2024.
Tatjana Soli is an American novelist and short-story writer. Her first novel, The Lotus Eaters (2010), won the prestigious James Tait Black Memorial Prize (UK), was a finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize, was a New York Times Bestseller, and a New York Times 2010 Notable Book. It has been optioned for a movie. Her second novel, The Forgetting Tree (2012) was a New York Times Notable Book. Soli's third novel, The Last Good Paradise, was among The Millions "Most Anticipated" Books of 2015. Her fourth novel, The Removes (2018), was named a New York Times Editor's Choice and longlisted for the Chautauqua Prize. Soli was longlisted for the Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize honoring a mid-career writer. Her non-fiction has appeared in a variety of publications including The New York Times Book Review.
She did not think it was true that women fell in love all at once, but rather, that they fell in love through repitition, just the way someone became brave.
The hardest thing was to give meaning to what appeared to have none.
This is what happened when one left one's home - pieces of oneself scattered all over the world, no one place ever completely satisfied, always a nostalgia for the place left behind.
Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war within one frame.
Too many heroes in my life. All gone.
Why did someone fall in love with you because you are one thing and then want you to be something else?
Sometimes you have to fulfill a promise in order to deserve the love you're given.
What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it?