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Aimee Bender
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 28
Novelist
Writer
the United States of America
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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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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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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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You're the perfect girl', he said, rubbing his chin. 'You expect nothing.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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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 am the drying meadow you the unspoken apology he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son 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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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
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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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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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The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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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? Before she knew it was candles, did she think she'd done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips, and the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
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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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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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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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