Jami Attenberg

Notable Quotes



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.

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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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In the wintertime I like macaroni and cheese.

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When I was growing up in Chicago, my family and I used to go to a local chain, Hackney's, for burgers and their French fried onion loaf. I probably haven't been to one in 25 years, and yet, I once saw Donald Trump from behind in an office building and the first thing that flashed in my mind was his hair looked like that onion loaf.

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No matter how much money I made from writing, I'd keep the bookstore job.

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

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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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I was fat because my parents were a little fat themselves at that point in their lives, and I ate what they ate.

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

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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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