I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
AIMEE BENDERThe writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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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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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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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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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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She is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.
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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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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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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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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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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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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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