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Jami Attenberg  Quotes
Cooking skills aside, my mother is an exceptional nurturer.

—Jami Attenberg

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The best thing about the Web is the sound of all the individual voices rising.

—Jami Attenberg

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In the past, I was sometimes put in this women’s lit category, and I was never really sure that was the appropriate place for me – although I certainly recognize it can be helpful and...

—Jami Attenberg

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I won’t go anywhere near the new Times Square. It’s seizure-inducing.

—Jami Attenberg

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AnywhereNearTimes
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I always tell people this when they’re looking for an agent – they should love your work. You are entitled to work with someone who believes in you. Why do business with someone who is...

—Jami Attenberg

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I make up stories about people who are either imaginary or some variation of myself.

—Jami Attenberg

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EitherImaginaryStories
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Maybe I wouldn’t hit three fast food restaurants in a day, but I could hit one in a day. I try not to do that.

—Jami Attenberg

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For years I’d thought my color was black: deep, dark, thoughtful, mysterious. Black, you can hide behind. But now I know it is red.

—Jami Attenberg

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The interesting thing about overeating or being obese is there’s this physical manifestation of it.

—Jami Attenberg

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It should be said upfront that I totally dig people who work in bookstores and libraries. They love books, and I love books, and that is all I really need to know. If they are...

—Jami Attenberg

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Said
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I wrote a novel. It’s called ‘The Middlesteins.’ It’s fiction. It’s not a memoir. I’m not a spokesperson.

—Jami Attenberg

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I am not one of those people who string their exes along. Instead, I run and hide: under the covers, behind my computer screen, on opposite coasts of the country.

—Jami Attenberg

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An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.

—Jami Attenberg

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My grandmother died when my mother was just 11 years old, and consequently, my mother never learned how to cook particularly well.

—Jami Attenberg

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DiedLearnedMother
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What’s the point of having a book club if you don’t get to eat brownies and drink wine?

—Jami Attenberg

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Book-ClubsFood
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I can act like a boy as much as I want, but when I wake up in the morning, I’m still a woman.

—Jami Attenberg

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There are generations of people who don’t know how to eat properly.

—Jami Attenberg

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Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe book criticism sections could review an equal amount of female and male writers....

—Jami Attenberg

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Book
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I’m a really selfish person. But I would do anything for my friends.

—Jami Attenberg

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FriendsSelfish
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I check my phone first thing when I wake up in the morning. I usually take it up with me to bed so it’s on the floor next to the bed, although not actually in...

—Jami Attenberg

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BedNext
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I do not mourn the death of the printed letter in a snobby, East Coast, patrician way – ‘Where have our manners gone?’ – but because I love objects, I love paper, and I love...

—Jami Attenberg

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Against
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My love can be easily bought with a steak from Peter Luger’s.

—Jami Attenberg

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BoughtEasily
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Food and love are all intertwined at our core level. It can be a very nurturing, wonderful, loving thing.

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Wonderful
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I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification.

—Jami Attenberg

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There’s something to be said for an author who clearly respects a reader.

—Jami Attenberg

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ClearlyReaderSaid
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No offense to Bushwick, where all my neighbors greeted me on the street and there is a growing arts community and a curious beauty to its industrial zone, but Bushwick is no Williamsburg, even if...

—Jami Attenberg

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CommunityGrowing
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I’m from the Midwest. We like to know who our neighbors are.

—Jami Attenberg

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I did get in a few fights in school. Kids threw around anti-Semitic slurs, not knowing necessarily what they meant. It was probably just something they picked up somewhere, as kids do.

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FewKnowingSomewhere
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Does everything in this life begin and end with Judy Blume? Perhaps.

—Jami Attenberg

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BeginPerhaps
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My parents are still married. They don’t weigh 350 pounds; they go to the gym all the time.

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In the wintertime I like macaroni and cheese.

—Jami Attenberg

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CheeseMacaroniWintertime
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I find that short stories are almost like palate cleansers or brain cleansers.

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We’ve all got flesh. I’ve just got a little more.

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Flesh
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There are a lot of great things about food, but it’s something that’s an eternal struggle in our contemporary society, where and how food is made, where it’s coming from, how much to consume. There...

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I’m not really interested in writing or reading about people who are nice and easy. I like the problem children.

—Jami Attenberg

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I didn’t go to graduate school, where all the important writers seemed to be getting their start. I didn’t pursue getting published in literary magazines. I didn’t even send out countless pitch letters and manuscripts...

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GettingStartWriters
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For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.

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My Twitter feed is probably my biggest resource of news. Other people scour the web so I do not have to, and I thank them for it.

—Jami Attenberg

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BiggestNewsThank
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In 1998, I started a blog, something I could control very easily and update at my own whim.

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ControlEasilyStarted
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I have very distinct memories about growing up as part of what was then a very small Jewish community in Buffalo Grove, IL.

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CommunityGrowingSmall
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What a character eats is a detail – like eye color or a favorite song. But food is also our lifeblood.

—Jami Attenberg

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CharacterSong
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What I try very hard to do is have an hour or so in the morning when I leave the house and don’t have my phone with me. I’ll go sit in a cafe and...

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HouseRead
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I’m pretty pro-food.

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Pretty
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I remember being banned from other houses as a younger child during the winter holiday season; I was the only one who didn’t believe in Santa Claus, and I was ruining everyone’s Christmas.

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I kind of want to be seen as an American writer, not just a New York writer.

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No matter how many feminist tracts you read, you never forget what boys like.

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In your 40s, you shed those who bring you down and surround yourself with the most positive people you know.

—Jami Attenberg

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I have watched Occupy Wall Street mostly from the sidelines.

—Jami Attenberg

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MostlyStreetWall
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When does an object become a symbol? All I know is you cannot force it.

—Jami Attenberg

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CannotForceObject
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When I was growing up in Chicago, my family and I used to go to a local chain, Hackney’s, for burgers and their French fried onion loaf. I probably haven’t been to one in 25...

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MindOnce
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