"I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I wanted to do or be."

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Source : "Go forth (Vol.10)". Interview with Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. June 5, 2013.

Jami Attenberg

#Stories Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“The government is asleep - there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions”
“No one can tell you who you are and what you are made of, only you yourself know what you are made of, and only you yourself can do the work to become who you want to be.”
“The mastery of any subject requires that one identify himself with the particular state of consciousness appropriate to that subject.”
“You don't improvise with a Cameron Crowe script.”
“The law of life is that the mind should be at rest while the body engages in action.”
“I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw?”
“Women have the understanding of the heart, which is better than that of the head.”

Source : Samuel Rogers, William Maltby (1856). “Recollections of the Table-talk of Samuel Rogers: To which is Added Porsoniana”, p.121
“Virtue is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one night when we are asleep, or regard it not; but a delicate plant, that groweth slowly and tenderly, needing much pains to cultivate it, much care to guard it, much time to mature it, in our untoward soil, in this world's unkindly weather.”

Source : Isaac Barrow (1831). “The works of Dr. Isaac Barrow”, p.241

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