When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It’s nourishing; it’s rejuvenating.
AIMEE BENDERLanguage is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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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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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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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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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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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 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 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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