Jami Attenberg

I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you…

— Jami Attenberg

“And she was funny and beautiful and she liked the same books, the same music, and she wanted everything I did, was…

— Jami Attenberg

Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction…

— Jami Attenberg

I'm not really interested in writing or reading about people who are nice and easy. I like the problem children.

— Jami Attenberg

“mostly I have found myself resisting their sadness when I have so much of my own.”

— Jami Attenberg

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

Do you often find yourself uttering the phrase, 'I feel like I should go?' You do not need to go. You are…

— Jami Attenberg

We've all got flesh. I've just got a little more.

— Jami Attenberg

In the wintertime I like macaroni and cheese.

— Jami Attenberg

“We listen to NPR for the first two hours on the road, the strange comfort of bad news reported in reasonable tones,”

— Jami Attenberg

I am not one of those people who string their exes along. Instead, I run and hide: under the covers, behind my…

— Jami Attenberg

When I was growing up in Chicago, my family and I used to go to a local chain, Hackney's, for burgers and…

— Jami Attenberg

I remember being banned from other houses as a younger child during the winter holiday season; I was the only one who…

— Jami Attenberg

Sometimes, things are just exercises.

— Jami Attenberg

I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing…

— Jami Attenberg

In your 40s, you shed those who bring you down and surround yourself with the most positive people you know.

— Jami Attenberg

“But I cry anyway because it was a path I could have taken and didn't. I cry for the lost idea, the…

— Jami Attenberg

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

“I’ve had enough me to last a lifetime,”

— Jami Attenberg

Young adult novels don't shy away from the discussion of weight issues, and 'Blubber,' the tale of an overweight, not-so-sympathetic fifth-grader bullied…

— Jami Attenberg

“He clicked through a dozen of them until he found a picture of a dark, curly haired woman, ample, smiling, appearing much…

— Jami Attenberg

“Playing with them was boring, and it wasn't even their fault. It was just the notion of playing itself. She had never…

— Jami Attenberg

The best thing about the Web is the sound of all the individual voices rising.

— Jami Attenberg

“These are the things we do sometimes, she thinks. We remind ourselves of why we're in love, so that we can stay…

— Jami Attenberg

“But why should I care what he's doing if I'm crazy about you?' 'We are allowed to have more than one feeling…

— Jami Attenberg