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Jami Attenberg Quotes

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What a character eats is a detail - like eye color or a favorite song. But food is also our lifeblood.

Character Food Detail Song Eye Like

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

Writing Start Think You Place First

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

New York American New Want Kind

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

Brain Short Find Almost Like Palate

I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification.

Writing Short Feel More Bigger

I don't know much about any of the Hasidim because the men won't talk to me because I'm a woman, and the women won't talk to me because, while I am Jewish, I'm not Hasidic.

Women Men Woman I Am Me Know

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

Know Neighbors Who Like Midwest Our

It's the differences in people that help you realize who you are. Even if we silently pass each other on the street.

People Help You Differences Street

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

Past Man Loved Way Never Old

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.

Beauty Community Curious Real Estate

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

Book Back Lost Sometimes Years Get

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.

Red Color Deep Black Thought You

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