“It was ridiculous, at times, how many tears one body could produce.” — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“Several of the girls at the party had had sex, something which sounded appealing but only if it could happen with blindfolds… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I love all the arts - so museums, theatre, music, walks near trees or by the ocean, time with people, psychological readings. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“Most teenage girls don't give old people the time of day which is sad because all old people do all the time… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“Sherrie would be there, and the last time I’d seen her at a social event she burst into tears when she saw… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I did plays in college, and I have half of a play. But I'm kind of stuck. I keep revisiting it so… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from super-large successes to failures. Success… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“Joseph would reach out to me occasionally, the same way the desert blooms a flower every now and then. You get so… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“He moved his fingers down her whole spine, one by one by one, and during the time it took to do that,… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“In Murakami's short story 'The Kidney-Shaped Stone That Moves Every Day,' the main character is a writer. In describing the act of… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“He had set up a telescope on a corner of the roof, and we went up to take a look. This is… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“Here is something I understand about psychology, and I think it relates to fiction: if you loosen up your understanding of yourself… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“Does it work with sandwiches? he asked. I didn't move. He handed it over. George was watching with a kind of neutral curiosity, and… — Aimee Bender Copy Share
There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from super-large successes to failures. Success would be… — Aimee Bender Copy Share
I did plays in college, and I have half of a play. But I'm kind of stuck. I keep revisiting it so maybe it… — Aimee Bender Copy Share
“My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope - make yourself a structure you can live inside.” — Aimee Bender Copy Share
One thing I don't want to feel is marketplace pressure, so I'm really glad I enjoy teaching because I can rely on that for… — Aimee Bender Copy Share
Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language. — Aimee Bender Copy Share
“The sensor did not seem to be restricted to my mother's food, and there was so much to sort through, a torrent of information,… — Aimee Bender Copy Share
I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food… — Aimee Bender Copy Share
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,… — Aimee Bender Copy Share
“I started in our neighborhood, buying a pastrami burrito at Oki Dog and a deluxe gardenburger at Astro Burger and matzoh-ball soup at Greenblatt's… — Aimee Bender Copy Share
“I loved my dish towel. This one was two-toned, and had, on one side, stitchings of fat purple roses on a lavender background, and… — Aimee Bender Copy Share
…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks. — Aimee Bender Copy Share
“And in it all, the sensation of shaking my fists at the sky, shaking my fists high up to the sky, because that is… — Aimee Bender Copy Share
“He made a good salary but he did not flaunt it. He’d been raised in Chicago proper by a Lithuanian Jewish mother who had… — Aimee Bender Copy Share
