I’m not really interested in writing or reading about people who are nice and easy. I like the problem children. Jami Attenberg Read Quote
I think it’s nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another. Jami Attenberg Read Quote
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. Jami Attenberg Read Quote
In 1998, I started a blog, something I could control very easily and update at my own whim. Jami Attenberg Read Quote
I didn’t go to graduate school, where all the important writers seemed to be getting their start. I didn’t pursue getting published in literary magazines. I didn’t even send out countless pitch letters and manuscripts to agents. Jami Attenberg Read Quote
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. Jami Attenberg Read Quote
Sadly, e-mail has triggered the decline of the handwritten note; I have seen its near-disappearance in my lifetime. Jami Attenberg Read Quote
I do not mourn the death of the printed letter in a snobby, East Coast, patrician way – ‘Where have our manners gone?’ – but because I love objects, I love paper, and I love something that I can hold to my chest for a moment. Still, I bear no grudge against the e-mail form itself. Jami Attenberg Read Quote
Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase? Jami Attenberg Read Quote
