Jami Attenberg
Jami Attenberg
Jami Attenberg quotes about
coming eternal food great layers society struggle
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.
people
There are generations of people who don't know how to eat properly.
When we are young - or even 32 - we often say 'yes' to everything because we're worried that we won't know what we'll like if we don't try it.
detail eats eye favorite food
What a character eats is a detail - like eye color or a favorite song. But food is also our lifeblood.
We've all got flesh. I've just got a little more.
full statement totally
Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase?
When does an object become a symbol? All I know is you cannot force it.
cheese macaroni-and-cheese wintertime
In the wintertime I like macaroni and cheese.
notebook morning thinking
What I try very hard to do is have an hour or so in the morning when I leave the house and don't have my phone with me. I'll go sit in a cafe and read and handwrite in my notebook and not be facing a screen. My head will be clear. I will be able to hear myself think. Because honestly for the rest of the day it's just screens, screens, screens.
exercise sometimes
Sometimes, things are just exercises.
brain stories palate
I find that short stories are almost like palate cleansers or brain cleansers.
terrible please relatable
Please make me either relatable or terrible.