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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More Aimee Bender Quotes
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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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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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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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 watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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He was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I’d always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph’s part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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I like birthday cake. It’s so symbolic. It’s a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just ‘Happy birthday!’ because it’s this emblem of childhood and a happy day.
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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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Before she knew it was candles, did she think she’d done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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