As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.
AIMEE BENDERI 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.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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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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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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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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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn’t appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.
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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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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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That’s the thing with handmade items. They still have the person’s mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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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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