Top 81 Quotes by Jami Attenberg

I have watched Occupy Wall Street mostly from the sidelines.

When does an object become a symbol? All I know is you cannot force it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.