Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
AIMEE BENDERWe hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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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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Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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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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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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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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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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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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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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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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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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