I think it’s nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another. – Jami Attenberg
My parents are still married. They don’t weigh 350 pounds; they go to the gym all the time. – Jami Attenberg
What a character eats is a detail – like eye color or a favorite song. But food is also our lifeblood. – Jami Attenberg
Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase? – Jami Attenberg
I know the bestseller ‘Gone Girl’ doesn’t need an ounce of support from me, but that book was as sharp and witty as they come. – Jami Attenberg
I don’t know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer. – Jami Attenberg
The interesting thing about overeating or being obese is there’s this physical manifestation of it. – Jami Attenberg
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
I have very distinct memories about growing up as part of what was then a very small Jewish community in Buffalo Grove, IL. – Jami Attenberg
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. – Jami Attenberg
I think when you first start out, you’re writing books that are about your immediate place. – Jami Attenberg
Maybe I wouldn’t hit three fast food restaurants in a day, but I could hit one in a day. I try not to do that. – Jami Attenberg
In your 40s, you shed those who bring you down and surround yourself with the most positive people you know. – Jami Attenberg
I’m not really interested in writing or reading about people who are nice and easy. I like the problem children. – Jami Attenberg
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. – Jami Attenberg
I know I have a problem with semi-colon abuse and have written page-long sentences. Nobody needs to be reading page-long sentences, at least not written by me. – Jami Attenberg
Social media can connect you with other people in so many wonderful ways – but it can also make you really sick of yourself. – Jami Attenberg
I was fat because my parents were a little fat themselves at that point in their lives, and I ate what they ate. – Jami Attenberg
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
Some journal writers choose to password-protect their site, which is either an incredibly responsible act or a paranoid one. – Jami Attenberg
