It's the differences in people that help you realize who you are. Even if we silently pass each other on the street. — 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
I think when you first start out, you're writing books that are about your immediate place. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Social media can connect you with other people in so many wonderful ways - but it can also make you really sick… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
People are branded as either 'fat' or 'skinny' from an early age. You sort of never shake it, even if you end… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
No matter how many feminist tracts you read, you never forget what boys like. — 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
Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase? — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Your family is unavoidable. You cannot escape them or trade them in for another family. You also can't change them... but you… — 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
No offense to Bushwick, where all my neighbors greeted me on the street and there is a growing arts community and a… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any topic a writer should feel afraid of tackling just because it has already been discussed. If you… — 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… — 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
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
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
“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
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
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
“mostly I have found myself resisting their sadness when I have so much of my own.” — Jami Attenberg Copy Share
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
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
“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
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
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
I remember being banned from other houses as a younger child during the winter holiday season; I was the only one who didn't believe… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share
I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share
