Aimee Bender Quotes

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

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  Moments, Rescue, Surprising

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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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• 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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• You can ruin anything if you focus at it.

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  Focus, Ruins, Ifs

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.

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  Writing, People, Kind

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• I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.

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  Space, Lines, Dots

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.28, Random House

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