Jami Attenberg Quotes
Top 97 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jami Attenberg
Jami Attenberg Famous Quotes & Sayings
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It's good to try stuff. I wrote a book that I threw away, and I think I just wrote it so I could try stuff in it and not be scared
I don't pretend for a second that I'm that great of a person on a day-to-day basis. I'm a deeply flawed human.
We all lose sometimes. Life's plenty easy when you're winning. It's what you do when you're down. That's the real test.
I know the bestseller 'Gone Girl' doesn't need an ounce of support from me, but that book was as sharp and witty as they come.
As creative people, we should be really conscious of being of service in our work, being as generous as we can.
I didn't have it in me," I say. "The minute I felt unsupported I gave up. I saw that to be a painter meant a lifetime of not being supported.
I was fat because I lived in the Midwest in the 1970s, and everyone was a little fat then and only getting fatter.
When we are young - or even 32 - we often say 'yes' to everything because we're worried that we won't know what we'll like if we don't try it.
I'm not really interested in writing or reading about people who are nice and easy. I like the problem children.
You can quit smoking, and never have to have a cigarette again to survive. But with food, it is a daily challenge.
To be an artist means a lifetime of being told no, with the occasional yes showing up just to give you enough hope to carry on.
Social media can connect you with other people in so many wonderful ways - but it can also make you really sick of yourself.
I have very distinct memories about growing up as part of what was then a very small Jewish community in Buffalo Grove, IL.
For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.
Maybe I wouldn't hit three fast food restaurants in a day, but I could hit one in a day. I try not to do that.
In 'The Odyssey,' every feast is extremely ritualized; high-status individuals even get a better cut of meat.
I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification.
Middlestein thought texting was the same as Morse code, and the more people texted, the closer American came to being a nation at war.
If you can't see the beauty in the dirt then I feel sorry for you. And if you can't see why these streets are special, then just go home already.
My grandmother died when my mother was just 11 years old, and consequently, my mother never learned how to cook particularly well.
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 for it.
People are branded as either 'fat' or 'skinny' from an early age. You sort of never shake it, even if you end up losing weight.
Everyone always thinks of ghosts as being invisible or like air but they take up so much space in a room, you've no idea.
For years I'd thought my color was black: deep, dark, thoughtful, mysterious. Black, you can hide behind. But now I know it is red.
Smart, sharp, and hilarious, Slaughterhouse 90210 is the perfect pick-me-up and never-put-me-down book.
I was fat because my parents were a little fat themselves at that point in their lives, and I ate what they ate.
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 wanted to do or be.
Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase?
The fascinating thing about food is that if you have issues with it, you have to face it every single day.
In your 40s, you shed those who bring you down and surround yourself with the most positive people you know.
Sadly, e-mail has triggered the decline of the handwritten note; I have seen its near-disappearance in my lifetime.
Food and love are all intertwined at our core level. It can be a very nurturing, wonderful, loving thing.
It's the differences in people that help you realize who you are. Even if we silently pass each other on the street.
In its current incarnation in my life touring is a lot of airports and hotels and car services and only OK food.
I let the sun hit me. The sun's some kind of gift. Another day we're all alive. I wish she could understand. I'm just happy to be alive.
I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.
What a character eats is a detail - like eye color or a favorite song. But food is also our lifeblood.
My laptop broke and because of the storm I could not get a new one. And so I've been promoting my book via iPhone.
Some journal writers choose to password-protect their site, which is either an incredibly responsible act or a paranoid one.
My last book was speculative. I just don't quite know what I am doing. But I'll get there. I have a list of things I would love to write.