Jami Attenberg Quotes

United States, Writer
1971

Jami Attenberg (born 1971 in Arlington Heights, Illinois) is an American fiction writer and essayist. She is the author of a short story collection and five novels, including best-seller The Middlesteins.

Also known as Essayist, Author

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

Jami Attenberg
- Life
I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson.

Jami Attenberg

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

Jami Attenberg
- American
Listen: I'm OK cute. I'm no stunner.

Jami Attenberg
- Cute
The interesting thing about overeating or being obese is there's this physical manifestation of it.

Jami Attenberg
- Interesting
Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase?

Jami Attenberg
- Why
- Emotional
- Text
An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.

Jami Attenberg
- Ocean
I was fat because my parents were a little fat themselves at that point in their lives, and I ate what they ate.

Jami Attenberg
- Parents

In the wintertime I like macaroni and cheese.

Jami Attenberg