Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
AIMEE BENDERWe hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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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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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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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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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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You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you’re alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you’re that important.
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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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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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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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I want to be violated by insight.
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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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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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