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.
AIMEE BENDERI admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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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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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think?
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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And the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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