Jami Attenberg Quotes
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Do you often find yourself uttering the phrase, 'I feel like I should go?' You do not need to go. You are busy that night. You are busy every night, forever.
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Many online journals get the most hits of the day during the lunch hour.
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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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I was fat because I lived in the Midwest in the 1970s, and everyone was a little fat then and only getting fatter.
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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.
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Anything by Lorrie Moore speaks to a certain kind of person.
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The best thing about the Web is the sound of all the individual voices rising.
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Young adult novels don't shy away from the discussion of weight issues, and 'Blubber,' the tale of an overweight, not-so-sympathetic fifth-grader bullied by her peers, is a refreshing take.
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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 to agents.
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What a character eats is a detail - like eye color or a favorite song. But food is also our lifeblood.
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In addition to public housing, South Williamsburg is home to shabby artists' lofts like mine, apartments of Hasidic Jews, and one extremely tall, high-priced condo.
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There are generations of people who don't know how to eat properly.
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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 bed with me, because I really do not want to be the person who sleeps with their phone.
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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.
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Does everything in this life begin and end with Judy Blume? Perhaps.
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I actually didn't grow up in a household that loved Chinese food particularly, and it's not really my go-to food or anything... We were more a pizza family, being from the Chicago area and all.
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It's good to pass on stories.
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My love can be easily bought with a steak from Peter Luger's.
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I won't go anywhere near the new Times Square. It's seizure-inducing.
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We've all got flesh. I've just got a little more.
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Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase?
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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.
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Sadly, e-mail has triggered the decline of the handwritten note; I have seen its near-disappearance in my lifetime.
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I was fat because my parents were a little fat themselves at that point in their lives, and I ate what they ate.