Jami Attenberg Quotes

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• What's the point of having a book club if you don't get to eat brownies and drink wine?

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  Book, Wine, Clubs

  Jami Attenberg (2013). “The Middlesteins”, p.103, Profile Books

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• An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.

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  Ocean, Giants, Possibility

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• And we all get mired in the bullshit, the personality quirks, the personality disorders (ours and everyone else's), the jealousy, the disappointment, the blocks, the financial struggle, our egos, I do it too, I do it too, but if you can't remember it is all about the work and nothing else then I can't help you and you can't help yourself and you will lose. I promise you. You will lose.

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  Disappointment, Block, Struggle

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• Studying writing to me means reading and also rewriting obsessively. That's the best way to learn.

  Jami Attenberg

  Reading, Writing, Mean

  "Go forth (Vol.10)". Interview with Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. June 5, 2013.

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• What I try very hard to do is have an hour or so in the morning when I leave the house and don't have my phone with me. I'll go sit in a cafe and read and handwrite in my notebook and not be facing a screen. My head will be clear. I will be able to hear myself think. Because honestly for the rest of the day it's just screens, screens, screens.

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  Notebook, Morning, Thinking

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• Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe book criticism sections could review an equal amount of female and male writers. Maybe Oprah could start putting some books by women authors in her book club, since most of her audience is women.

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  Book, Criticism, Males

  "Interview With Jami Attenberg, Author of 'The Melting Season'". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• 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 is pretty great. Which is to say there is a ton of amazing work out there. These women are writing hard. There's much to be said. We're on it, chief.

  Jami Attenberg

  Writing, Thinking, Contemporary Fiction

  "Interview With Jami Attenberg, Author of 'The Melting Season'". Interview with Teddy Wayne, March 18, 2010.

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• I love doing readings. I could really give a crap about reviews. It's kind of about the readers.

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  Reading, Giving, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I remember being banned from other houses as a younger child during the winter holiday season; I was the only one who didn't believe in Santa Claus, and I was ruining everyone's Christmas.

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  Children, Believe, Holiday

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• I find that short stories are almost like palate cleansers, or brain cleansers.

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  Brain, Stories, Palate

  "Book Release: The Melting Season". Interview with Natasha Clark, www.elle.com. January 22, 2010.

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• In 1998, I started a blog, something I could control very easily and update at my own whim.

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  Updates, Whim, My Own

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• 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.

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  Book, Writing, Lasts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Smart, sharp, and hilarious, Slaughterhouse 90210 is the perfect pick-me-up and never-put-me-down book.

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  Smart, Book, Perfect

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• We are human beings, not ants.

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  Ants, Humans, Human Beings

  Jami Attenberg (2013). “The Middlesteins”, p.172, Profile Books

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• With apologies to all my past boyfriends, I never loved a man the way I loved my old apartment.

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  Apology, Past, Men

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• I love reading books that you can't put down, and they just take you over for a night or a weekend.

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  Book, Reading, Weekend

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In the wintertime I like macaroni and cheese.

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  Cheese, Macaroni And Cheese, Wintertime

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• The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry is a breezy, big-hearted treat, especially if you've ever wondered about the inner workings of America's national treasures--neighborhood bookstores.

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  America, Bookstores, Treasure

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• Please make me either relatable or terrible.

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  Terrible, Please, Relatable

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• I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still.

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  Writing, Sitting Still, Wish

  "Go forth (Vol.10)". Interview with Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. June 5, 2013.

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• Wouldn't that be nice if we could all afford to just freely pursue our dreams?

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  Dream, Nice, Pursue

  "Go Forth (Vol. 10)". Interview with Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. June 5, 2013.

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• I had always loved life on the road. It was just something that appealed to me very deeply.

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  Very Deep

  "Go Forth (Vol. 10)". Interview with Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. June 5, 2013.

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• In its current incarnation in my life touring is a lot of airports and hotels and car services and only OK food.

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  Airports, Car, Touring

  "Go Forth (Vol. 10)". Interview with Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. June 5, 2013.

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• Writers have a job to do. Editors do, too. You have to stand ground and cede ground on a case by case basis. When an editor tells me something isn't working and I still believe in it, I tend to think it just isn't working hard enough.

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  Jobs, Believe, Thinking

  "Go Forth (Vol. 10)". Interview with Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. June 5, 2013.

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• I wish I had the luxury of time to read and write like grad students do. That sounds pretty awesome. When I was writing my first book one of my friends was going to grad school at the same time and I heard a lot of stories about drinking, too. I feel like everyone was having affairs.

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  Drinking, Book, Writing

  "Go Forth (Vol. 10)". Interview with Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. June 5, 2013.

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