Jami Attenberg Quotes

Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women is pretty great. Which is to say there is a ton of amazing work out there. These women are writing hard. There's much to be said. We're on it, chief.

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• Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • People
  • Said
  • Same

• Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Help
  • Sense
  • Bewildering

• We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Information
  • Flow

• Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Men
  • Words
  • Eye

• The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I never left doo wop.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Never
  • Left

• Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Great
  • Long
  • Down

• The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • You
  • First
  • Reservations

• Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.

  

  Vince Staples
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Time
  • Acting
  • Misery

• Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Experience
  • Without
  • Makes

• It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • God
  • Day
  • End

• When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • Future
  • Write
  • I Write

• It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Science
  • Reason
  • Authority

• If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Judging
  • India
  • Sitting

• If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • People
  • Woman
  • Dinner

• I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

  

  John Philip Sousa
  • Music

• Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a manly way and say, Sir, I made an honest mistake.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Up
  • God
  • Die

• We take the art seriously. We take communicating it seriously. And maybe we took ourselves a little too seriously in the beginning. Sometimes I watch the videos, and I think, 'Yeah, you could've relaxed a lot in the 'I Alone' video,' you know?

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Art
  • Alone
  • Beginning

• Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.

  

  Yves Tanguy
  • Work
  • Alone
  • Jealous

• I can't think that it would be terrible of me to say — and it is occasionally true — that I need physics more than friends.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Friends
  • True
  • Physics

• Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women is pretty great. Which is to say there is a ton of amazing work out there. These women are writing hard. There's much to be said. We're on it, chief.

  

  Jami Attenberg
  • Work
  • Great
  • Writing