The stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader’s brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing.
AIMEE BENDERI have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn’t sustain my interest.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.” – Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)
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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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When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It’s nourishing; it’s rejuvenating.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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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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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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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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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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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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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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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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