I Came All This Way to Meet You Quotes

“I wanted to go to Italy because I was sad because my heart was broken, and I thought Italy would make me happy again because everything I would eat there would be delicious.”
― Jami Attenberg, I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home – An Inspiring Memoir of Creativity, Risk-Taking, and Independence

“I love the idea of solitude being a gift. I think we can be afraid of being lonely, but if you figure out a way to own it and see it as a treasure and a pleasure and a joy, then it can be quite comforting.”
― Jami Attenberg, I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home – An Inspiring Memoir of Creativity, Risk-Taking, and Independence

“When you slide down a mountain, or jump off a cliff, you accept the not knowing. Don’t tell me how it ends; let me see for myself.”
― Jami Attenberg, I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home – An Inspiring Memoir of Creativity, Risk-Taking, and Independence

“Everything is a risk. That’s what’s hitting so many people so hard right now, here, as we approach May 2020. They didn’t know that they didn’t know.”
― Jami Attenberg, I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home – An Inspiring Memoir of Creativity, Risk-Taking, and Independence

“I had absolutely no idea what I was doing or how to do it or what it would mean for me to start over again; I just knew it was time to go.”
― Jami Attenberg, I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home – An Inspiring Memoir of Creativity, Risk-Taking, and Independence

“I own these words. I own these ideas. Here is my book.”
― Jami Attenberg, I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home

“There are plenty of reasons why I write. This is just one of them. The sense that I want to own something, own my work, own my creativity, own my name. It is perhaps not the purest reason, not truest of heart, for there is some ego attached to it. But it is real.”
― Jami Attenberg, I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home

“The solution was to write my way out of the problem. That meant writing early in the morning, late at night, and on weekends. It meant carving out time, claiming it for myself. I thought: I will write this first book, and then maybe another after that. This is the thing I want to do.”
― Jami Attenberg, I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home