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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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Aimee Bender
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 28
Novelist
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the United States of America
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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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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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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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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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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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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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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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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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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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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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When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing it's rejuvenating.
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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 didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious.
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I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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I admired that stride it was like he folded space in two with it.
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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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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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