In your 40s, you shed those who bring you down and surround yourself with the most positive people you know. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
For years I'd thought my color was black: deep, dark, thoughtful, mysterious. Black, you can hide behind. But now I know it… — 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
When does an object become a symbol? All I know is you cannot force it. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
When we are young - or even 32 - we often say 'yes' to everything because we're worried that we won't know… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
It should be said upfront that I totally dig people who work in bookstores and libraries. They love books, and I love… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
There are generations of people who don't know how to eat properly. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I don't know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I know the bestseller 'Gone Girl' doesn't need an ounce of support from me, but that book was as sharp and witty… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
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… — 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
