Jami Attenberg Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

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

  Jami Attenberg

  Book, Wine, Clubs

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

• 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.

  Jami Attenberg

  Drinking, Book, Writing

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

• 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.

  Jami Attenberg

  Book, Criticism, Males

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

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

  Jami Attenberg

  Book, Reading, Weekend

  Source: therumpus.net

• 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.

  Jami Attenberg

  Book, Writing, Lasts

  Source: therumpus.net

• 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

  Jami Attenberg

  Book, Thinking, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

• 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.

  Jami Attenberg

  Book, Iphone, Storm

  Source: therumpus.net

• 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, even, but it could still feel big.

  Jami Attenberg

  Book, Thinking, Use

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Jami Attenberg

  Smart, Book, Perfect

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