Quotes by Jami Attenberg

Jami Attenberg

An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.

Giants

Ocean

Possibility

And we all get mired in the bullshit, the personality quirks, the personality disorders (ours and everyone else’s), the jealousy, the disappointment, the blocks, the financial struggle, our egos, I do it too, I do it too, but if you can’t remember it is all about the work and nothing else then I can’t help you and you can’t help yourself and you will lose. I promise you. You will lose.

Block

Disappointment

Struggle

I don’t pretend for a second that I’m that great of a person on a day-to-day basis. I’m a deeply flawed human.

Bases

Flawed

Humans

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

Brain

Palate

Stories

I had always loved life on the road. It was just something that appealed to me very deeply.

Very Deep

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.

Book

Thinking

Use

I love doing readings. I could really give a crap about reviews. It’s kind of about the readers.

Giving

Kind

Reading

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

Book

Reading

Weekend

I remember being banned from other houses as a younger child during the winter holiday season; I was the only one who didn’t believe in Santa Claus, and I was ruining everyone’s Christmas.

Believe

Children

Holiday

I smoked for many years like a total idiot.

Idiot

Years

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Ants

Apology

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Block

Book

Bookstores

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Car

Challenges

Character

Cheese

Children

Clubs

Contemporary Fiction

Crazy

Criticism

Disappointment

Dream

Drinking

Emotional

Epic

Exercise

Faces

Fascinating

Firsts

Flawed

Giants

Giving

Historical Novels

Holiday

Human Beings

Humans

Idiot

Iphone

Issues

Jobs

Judging

Kind

Lasts

Macaroni And Cheese

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Mean

Men

Morning

My Own

Nice

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Quotes by Jami Attenberg

Jami Attenberg

An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.

I don’t pretend for a second that I’m that great of a person on a day-to-day basis. I’m a deeply flawed human.

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

I had always loved life on the road. It was just something that appealed to me very deeply.

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.

I love doing readings. I could really give a crap about reviews. It’s kind of about the readers.

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

I remember being banned from other houses as a younger child during the winter holiday season; I was the only one who didn’t believe in Santa Claus, and I was ruining everyone’s Christmas.

I smoked for many years like a total idiot.

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