Anything Quote by Jami Attenberg Download Open image “Anything by Lorrie Moore speaks to a certain kind of person.” — Jami Attenberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anything Certain Kind Moore Person Speaks
“Miss Moore speaks slowly, deliberately. "I know because I read." She pulls back and stands, hands on hips, offering us a challenge. "May I… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Long before I started to write in earnest, Lorrie Moore taught me you could have a woman narrator who was funny and complex and… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's better to be with the sheep, who don't say anything. And better still to be alone with one's books. They tell their… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“I know I can be a bit forward and I do talk entirely too much, which I would try to do something about but… — Victoria Alexander Copy Share Image
“And then a scholar said, "Speak of talking." And he answered, saying: "And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“When she told me it was her favorite, it suggested to me strange and wonderful things about her character that I had not guessed,… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“For instance, the headmistress, Miss Moore. I knew right away that she had come to Antigua from England, for she looked like a prune… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“It was not uncommon to walk in the door of their home and find my mother sitting on the sofa reading over a manuscript… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“And better still to be alone with one’s books. They tell their incredible stories at the time when you want to hear them. But… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In American Romances, her new book of essays, Rebecca Brown has a voice that is full of pop references, family stories, and the fruits… — Susan Stinson 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
I guess I've never really wanted to be anything else. I've never even thought about having another job. — Owen Farrell Copy Share Image
I would give anything to be able to kick a ball with my son or read the kids a bedtime story. — Rob Burrow Copy Share Image
Comfort food is really anything you want at that time. That said, I really love Naple-style pizza. — Geoffrey Zakarian Copy Share Image
I haven't shut any doors, and I'm really open to anything, so I think it's just about the material and what is going to… — Danielle Panabaker Copy Share Image
When it really comes down to it, the job you do is more important and is more representative of who you are than your… — Michael Cudlitz Copy Share Image
The reason I'm drawn to it is - both the off road racing and the motorcycles on the track - it takes a lot… — Dax Shepard Copy Share Image
I never did drama at school. I did it for one term, when it was compulsory, and I hated it. Tennis was the main… — Luke Mitchell Copy Share Image
We live in such a special time when literally anything we can think of is possible — Daniel Willey Copy Share Image
You know, I'm from Baltimore; nobody has anything. When somebody had talent, I was hiring my uncle, my cousin, you know? Getting people that… — Sisqo Copy Share Image
I said to my agent, 'I want short, sharp, well-paid jobs because I haven't got time for anything else.' — Billie Whitelaw Copy Share Image
I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography. — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
If the Bible is correct, and the Earth is only 6,000 years old, that means there were no dinosaurs, and museum curators have been… — Ron Shock Copy Share Image
