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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
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the United States of America
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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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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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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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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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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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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 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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The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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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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…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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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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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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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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You're the perfect girl', he said, rubbing his chin. 'You expect nothing.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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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 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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