45 Jami Attenberg Quotes for You to Enjoy

Jami Attenberg

American Author

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

Man Old Past Way Never Boyfriend Loved Apartment Apology

Listen: I'm OK cute. I'm no stunner. Jami Attenberg

Cute OK Listen

I won't go anywhere near the new Times Square. It's seizure-inducing. Jami Attenberg

New Go Square Times Times Square Anywhere Near

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. Jami Attenberg

Myself Day Morning Me Cafe Phone Try Will Rest Sit Think Honestly Able Facing Clear Head Hour House Read Because Leave Go Hear Very Just Screen Screens Notebook Hard

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. Jami Attenberg

Food Family More Area Particularly Household Were Chicago Up Being Anything Loved Pizza Chinese Chinese Food Really Grow Grow Up Actually

No offense to Bushwick, where all my neighbors greeted me on the street and there is a growing arts community and a curious beauty to its industrial zone, but Bushwick is no Williamsburg, even if the real estate agents would have you believe it is. Jami Attenberg

In the wintertime I like macaroni and cheese. Jami Attenberg

Cheese Macaroni Wintertime Like

Anything by Lorrie Moore speaks to a certain kind of person. Jami Attenberg

Kind Moore Person Anything Certain Speaks

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

Time Parents Married Gym Pounds Weigh Still Go

I was fat because I lived in the Midwest in the 1970s, and everyone was a little fat then and only getting fatter. Jami Attenberg

Everyone Fatter Only Because Getting Little Midwest Then Lived Fat

The best thing about the Web is the sound of all the individual voices rising. Jami Attenberg

Best Web About Rising Voices Individual Sound Thing

Many online journals get the most hits of the day during the lunch hour. Jami Attenberg

Day Lunch Online Journals Hour Most Get Hits Many

I have watched Occupy Wall Street mostly from the sidelines. Jami Attenberg

Sidelines Mostly Occupy Occupy Wall Street Wall Wall Street Street Watched

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. Jami Attenberg

People Hide Country String Those Run Computer Computer Screen Instead Along Am Opposite Covers Behind Screen Who

I kind of want to be seen as an American writer, not just a New York writer. Jami Attenberg

Seen Kind Writer New American York Just New York Want

I find that short stories are almost like palate cleansers or brain cleansers. Jami Attenberg

Find Almost Like Brain Short Stories Short Stories Palate

I'm from the Midwest. We like to know who our neighbors are. Jami Attenberg

Our Neighbors Like Know Midwest Who

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

Love Death Gone Manners Our Way Paper East East Coast Something Objects Bear Printed Because Still Chest Itself Snobby Mourn Where Form Hold Against Coast Moment Letter Grudge

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. Jami Attenberg

My Twitter feed is probably my biggest resource of news. Other people scour the web so I do not have to, and I thank them for it. Jami Attenberg

News People Twitter Other Resource Web Feed Thank Biggest Them

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