Quotes by Aimee Bender

About Aimee Bender:

Aimee Bender is an American novelist and short story writer, known for her surreal plots and characters.
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[...]when he closed his eyes, the torrent of longing waiting inside was so thick he thought he might drown in it.

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It is these empty spaces you have to watch out for, as they flood up with feeling before you even realize what's happened.

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We end up kissing her for an hour, and her lips are so soft they are almost like a joke.

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Ponytail girl leaned over and she and the tall boy kissed and it was carcinogen gums and magical.

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He said, I always thought the woman I’d marry would hit me easy, in a bolt of lightning, and there is not lightning there is not even thunder there is not even rain.

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She could feel it brimming on her lips, that superstar smile, the bow shape, the teeth long and solid tombstones.

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I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.

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Some creative writing programs seem evil, but my experience at Irvine was totally the opposite, where I feel like they were really good at focusing in on each writers voice and setting. When I felt like I was obligated to write a story that was more ...

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I get a little myopic in the act of doing any writing. I think I'm not as interested or not as able to write about balance, because I think there's something I want to try to get at. I'm trying to get at something about the experience of growing up o...

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I love food. I'm not a great cook, but I love to cook, and I like how different it is from writing.

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There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from super-large successes to failures. Success would be love, I guess, and failure could still be love, but the bad side; and loss.

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Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot.

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I don't eschew autobiographical writing, but I'm not interested in mine to be so straightforward. The things that tend to move me the most are often those that I have to figure out its meaning for myself. The human being's ability to make a metaphor ...

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I really like feeling connected to people and feeling like I have a good, solid sense of empathy.

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As a kid, I often figured it was good to be patient to a fault.

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I think teaching keeps me honest because if I'm up in front of a class talking about what I think is important about fiction while knowing I myself have just failed to do that hours earlier at my computer - it's a good and humbling reminder.

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When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.

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I write on a very strict 2-hour-a-day schedule, and I really respond to structure and invented rules. So even if I'm finding out good information on a character, I will stop when I'm set to stop.

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Generally, I think most of my writing tends to have some kind of magical element to it. That's the way I can access the emotional life of the character.

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I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.

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I love the idea of numerology, but I don't really believe in it. But I like thinking about what numbers convey.

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Author Bio

  • NameAimee Bender
  • DescriptionNovelist, short story writer
  • BornJune 28, 1969
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist