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.
AIMEE BENDERLarge meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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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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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 didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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It was a fleeting statement, one I didn’t think she’d hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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Pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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