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The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious.

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Aimee Bender
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 28
Novelist
Writer
the United States of America
Tend
Writing
Good
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Thinking
Mysterious

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I admired that stride it was like he folded space in two with it.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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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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