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.
AIMEE BENDERLanguage is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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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 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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If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.
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And the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
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There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
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The most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
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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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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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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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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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When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It’s nourishing; it’s rejuvenating.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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