Life Quote by 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 wanted to,…

— Jami Attenberg

“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

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

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 realize it's…

— Jami Attenberg

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

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 computer screen,…

— 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 their French…

— Jami Attenberg