Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
AIMEE BENDERI admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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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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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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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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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 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.
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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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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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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we’d read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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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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With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.
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I don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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