Aimee Bender Quotes

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Language Mothers Writing

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

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Dream, Writing, Awake

FaceBook post by Aimee Bender from May 25, 2014

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I want to be violated by insight.

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Want, Insight

Aimee Bender (2011). “The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories”, p.15, Anchor

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We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.

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Smart, Heart, Brain

Aimee Bender (2011). “The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories”, p.11, Anchor

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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.

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Moments, Rescue, Surprising

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Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.

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Strong, Kids, Later In Life

Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.117, Random House

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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.

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Mom, Magazines, Pages

Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.51, Random House

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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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Light, Yellow, Comfort

Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.122, Random House

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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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Rope, Band, Stories

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I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.

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Birthday, Cake, Childhood

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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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Wise, Wine, Eye

Aimee Bender (2009). “Willful Creatures”, p.31, Anchor

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That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone. This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.

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Burgers, Littles, Handmade

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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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Writing, Pages, Best Work

Interview with Ryan Boudinot, www.pifmagazine.com. November, 1998.

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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles 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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Struggle, Writing, Character

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The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious.

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Writing, Thinking, Mysterious

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I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.

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Thinking, Unbearable, Said

Aimee Bender (2011). “The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories”, p.28, Anchor

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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.

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Life, Sadness, Loss

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I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.

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Tears, Groups, Away From Each Other

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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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Character, Tickets, Plot

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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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Feel Good, Body, Language

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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, 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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Moving, Cutting, Simple

Aimee Bender (2009). “Willful Creatures”, p.90, Anchor

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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.

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Two, Space, Stride

Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.205, Random House

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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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Writing, Feelings, Lovely

"Why the best way to get creative is to make some rules" by Aimee Bender, www.cnn.com. July 31, 2012.

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You're the perfect girl', he said, rubbing his chin. 'You expect nothing.

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Girl, Perfect, Expect Nothing

Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.157, Random House

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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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Dark, Hands, Rooms

Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.67, Random House

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…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.

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Kissing, Years, Rolling

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Born: June 28, 1969
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