I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
AIMEE BENDERNot getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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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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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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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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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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother’s palm and fingertips.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn’t sustain my interest.
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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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Pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.
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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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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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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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