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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
Aimee Bender
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Aimee Bender
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 28
Novelist
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the United States of America
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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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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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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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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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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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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.
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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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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q...
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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Glen Hirshberg's stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content -- the stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader's brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing. It's a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg's storytelling skills in American Morons.
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You're the perfect girl', he said, rubbing his chin. 'You expect nothing.
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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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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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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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…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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