I'm not really interested in writing or reading about people who are nice and easy. I like the problem children. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
The best thing about the Web is the sound of all the individual voices rising. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I make up stories about people who are either imaginary or some variation of myself. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I have very distinct memories about growing up as part of what was then a very small Jewish community in Buffalo Grove,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
There are a lot of great things about food, but it's something that's an eternal struggle in our contemporary society, where and… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
You write a book, and after 50 pages you think it's about one thing, and then you write another hundred and you… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I don't know much about any of the Hasidim because the men won't talk to me because I'm a woman, and the… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I think when you first start out, you're writing books that are about your immediate place. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about overeating or being obese is there's this physical manifestation of it. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I always tell people this when they're looking for an agent - they should love your work. You are entitled to work… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
“And she was funny and beautiful and she liked the same books, the same music, and she wanted everything I did, was in the… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
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… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I'm not really interested in writing or reading about people who are nice and easy. I like the problem children. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
“mostly I have found myself resisting their sadness when I have so much of my own.” — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
You write a book, and after 50 pages you think it's about one thing, and then you write another hundred and you realize it's… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Do you often find yourself uttering the phrase, 'I feel like I should go?' You do not need to go. You are busy that… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
“We listen to NPR for the first two hours on the road, the strange comfort of bad news reported in reasonable tones,” — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I am not one of those people who string their exes along. Instead, I run and hide: under the covers, behind my computer screen,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
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… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
