As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
AIMEE BENDERYou can ruin anything if you focus at it.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.
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It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.
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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 could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.
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But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.
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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it’s giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.
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Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn’t love me – I felt the wash of her love every day.
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I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.
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The stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader’s brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing.
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I am not happy, help me — like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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