Jami Attenberg Quotes
-
Many online journals get the most hits of the day during the lunch hour.
-
I've always been an old soul.
-
I was fat because I lived in the Midwest in the 1970s, and everyone was a little fat then and only getting fatter.
-
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.
-
Anything by Lorrie Moore speaks to a certain kind of person.
-
I know I have a problem with semi-colon abuse and have written page-long sentences. Nobody needs to be reading page-long sentences, at least not written by me.
-
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 are so many layers to it.
-
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.
-
There are generations of people who don't know how to eat properly.
-
My parents are still married. They don't weigh 350 pounds; they go to the gym all the time.
-
What a character eats is a detail - like eye color or a favorite song. But food is also our lifeblood.
-
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.
-
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.
-
It's good to pass on stories.
-
The best thing about the Web is the sound of all the individual voices rising.
-
I won't go anywhere near the new Times Square. It's seizure-inducing.
-
I'm pretty pro-food.
-
Some journal writers choose to password-protect their site, which is either an incredibly responsible act or a paranoid one.
-
In your 40s, you shed those who bring you down and surround yourself with the most positive people you know.
-
I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson.
-
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.
-
Does everything in this life begin and end with Judy Blume? Perhaps.
-
My love can be easily bought with a steak from Peter Luger's.
-
Sadly, e-mail has triggered the decline of the handwritten note; I have seen its near-disappearance in my lifetime.