A biography for Jami Attenberghasn’t been written yet.
“I don't think there's any topic a writer should feel afraid of tackling just because it has already been discussed. If you feel you have a fresh perspective and an understanding of a certain emotional truth, it's always worth writing.”
“It's the differences in people that help you realize who you are. Even if we silently pass each other on the street.”
“Some journal writers choose to password-protect their site, which is either an incredibly responsible act or a paranoid one.”
“Do you often find yourself uttering the phrase, 'I feel like I should go?' You do not need to go. You are busy that night. You are busy every night, forever.”
“I check my phone first thing when I wake up in the morning. I usually take it up with me to bed so it's on the floor next to the bed, although not actually in bed with me, because I really do not want to be the person who sleeps with their phone.”
“I kind of want to be seen as an American writer, not just a New York writer.”
“I am not one of those people who string their exes along. Instead, I run and hide: under the covers, behind my computer screen, on opposite coasts of the country.”
“No matter how much money I made from writing, I'd keep the bookstore job.”
“In your 40s, you shed those who bring you down and surround yourself with the most positive people you know.”
“I won't go anywhere near the new Times Square. It's seizure-inducing.”
“There's something to be said for an author who clearly respects a reader.”
“I'm from the Midwest. We like to know who our neighbors are.”
“I have very distinct memories about growing up as part of what was then a very small Jewish community in Buffalo Grove, IL.”
“I've always been an old soul.”
“In the wintertime I like macaroni and cheese.”
“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.”
“An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.”
“In 1998, I started a blog, something I could control very easily and update at my own whim.”
“There are a lot of great things about food, but it's something that's an eternal struggle in our contemporary society, where and how food is made, where it's coming from, how much to consume. There are so many layers to it.”
“His words are so slippery they might slide right off the page.”