Jami Attenberg Quotes

Everyone should have a blog. It's the most democratic thing ever.

I started my blog in 2002. That was pre-MySpace, pre-Facebook. That was back before newspapers realized they were going out of business. That was back when no one gave any credence to Internet writers.

My Web site, everything I write in there is from me.

A blog is neither a diary nor a journal. Many people think of blogging in relation to those two things, confessional or practical. It is neither but includes elements of both.

I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.

One of my greatest pleasures is writing on my Web site.

I started blogging as a hobby, not really thinking anyone would read my site, just my friends.

I never really thought I would make a blog myself.

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

Everyone's drunk on the term 'blog.'

Blogging got the concept of personal publishing, but it didn't really take advantage of the network.

For me, blogging is just like talking.

When I started my first blog years ago, I just wanted to share my perspective. For a long time, models had been these mute pretty faces - and I wanted to have a voice.

Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.

I post pictures that I want to post and say what I want to say. If that's three times a day or three times per month, then whatever.

On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.

My career wouldn't exist without blogs, electronic text, hyperlinks, and mass online audiences.

Nowadays, everyone seems to have a blog that finds readers.

I am a blogger - that is an amazing thing for me, because it captures a moment in time every day.

You can do anything. Put stuff on YouTube. You can create your own media, which you couldn't do not so long ago.

Because of social media, we have a lot of personal essays floating around; you see them on Facebook: everyone's either reading them or writing them. Some of them are great; some of them are diary entries put forth as essays.

We all know about blogs and how big they are.

The cool thing about the Internet now is it's democratized platforms. Like, anybody can create a blog. Anybody can give themselves some type of place where their work is visible.

I will not stop my blog.

I write my own blog every day. I do the Twitter every day and the Facebook. Without a gap. I do everything myself: I load my own photographs; I sometimes take my own videos and post them.