Jami Attenberg Quotes

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• With apologies to all my past boyfriends, I never loved a man the way I loved my old apartment. All
• No offense to Bushwick, where all my neighbors greeted me on the street and there is a growing arts community and a curious beauty to… Agents
• For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found. Book
• Sadly, e-mail has triggered the decline of the handwritten note; I have seen its near-disappearance in my lifetime. Decline
• Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase? Ambiguous
• An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities. Ellipsis
• My Twitter feed is probably my biggest resource of news. Other people scour the web so I do not have to, and I thank them… Biggest
• Social media can connect you with other people in so many wonderful ways - but it can also make you really sick of yourself. Connect
• Food and love are all intertwined at our core level. It can be a very nurturing, wonderful, loving thing. All
• In the wintertime I like macaroni and cheese. Cheese
• My grandmother died when my mother was just 11 years old, and consequently, my mother never learned how to cook particularly well. Consequently
• Cooking skills aside, my mother is an exceptional nurturer. Aside
• Does everything in this life begin and end with Judy Blume? Perhaps. Begin
• In your 40s, you shed those who bring you down and surround yourself with the most positive people you know. Bring
• 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 least not written… Abuse
• I make up stories about people who are either imaginary or some variation of myself. Imaginary
• No matter how many feminist tracts you read, you never forget what boys like. Boy
• As creative people, we should be really conscious of being of service in our work, being as generous as we can. Conscious
• In 1998, I started a blog, something I could control very easily and update at my own whim. Blog
• I have very distinct memories about growing up as part of what was then a very small Jewish community in Buffalo Grove, IL. Buffalo

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