173 Quotes by Jami Attenberg

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    For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.

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    I always tell people this when they're looking for an agent - they should love your work. You are entitled to work with someone who believes in you. Why do business with someone who is ambivalent about you and your art?

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    I actually didn't grow up in a household that loved Chinese food particularly, and it's not really my go-to food or anything... We were more a pizza family, being from the Chicago area and all.

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    I think when you first start out, you're writing books that are about your immediate place.

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    I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

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    I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson.

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    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.

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    Some journal writers choose to password-protect their site, which is either an incredibly responsible act or a paranoid one.

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    My parents are still married. They don't weigh 350 pounds; they go to the gym all the time.

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