“My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope - make yourself a structure you can live inside.” — Aimee Bender Love Copy Share Image
Granted, I'm someone who loves words. I've always loved poetry - so it's suited to me. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“Men love to watch two women kiss, but how I love to watch two men.” — Aimee Bender Kiss Copy Share Image
The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“I think it's good to smile at everybody so that everyone knows you love everyone. It's good for human pacifism.” — Aimee Bender Humor Copy Share Image
“Mom’s smiles were so full of feeling that people leaned back a little when she greeted them. It was hard to know… — 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 Blindfolds Copy Share Image
Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“Pain was no longer a mystery to him, and a man familiar with pain has entered a new kind of freedom.” — Aimee Bender Freedom Copy Share Image
I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room… — Aimee Bender Babysitter Copy Share Image
I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me, I am not… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“Then he sat down at the table of a larger man, a man with tattoos but the old kind, before tattoos became… — Aimee Bender Life Copy Share Image
“No one needed to say it, but the room overflowed with that sort of blessing. The combination of loss and abundance. The… — Aimee Bender Abundance Copy Share Image
At readings, audience members sometimes ask if I keep writing past the two hours if I'm on a roll, but I don't.… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children... It was a fleeting statement, one I didn't… — Aimee Bender Children Copy Share Image
I get a little myopic in the act of doing any writing. I think I'm not as interested or not as able… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I developed a prejudice in high school that it was all going to be boring. That kind of teenage, why-do-I-have-to-read-these-goddamn-classics feeling. And… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I write on a very strict 2-hour-a-day schedule, and I really respond to structure and invented rules. So even if I'm finding… — Aimee Bender Character Copy Share Image
“My favorite of all was still the place on Vermont, the French cafe, La Lyonnaise, that had given me the best onion… — Aimee Bender Cafe Copy Share Image
“During the descent, she gave the doily to the man across the aisle, worried about his ailing son, and the needlework was… — Aimee Bender Handmade Copy Share Image
“The phone is about the same size as a cigarette pack. It's no surprise to me that the traditional cigarette lighter in… — Aimee Bender Addiction Copy Share Image
“In other words, don't be reductive. Often, writers will rush to an ending that completes, or sums up, or reduces their story… — Aimee Bender Writing Copy Share Image
“My soup arrived. Crusted with cheese, golden at the edges. The waiter placed it carefully in front of me, and I broke… — Aimee Bender Food Copy Share Image
“My birthday is in March, and that year it fell during an especially bright spring week, vivid and clear in the narrow… — Aimee Bender Birthday Copy Share Image
“On the kitchen counter, she'd set out the ingredients: Flour bag, sugar box, two brown eggs nestled in the grooves between tiles.… — Aimee Bender Birthday cake Copy Share Image
“He breathed in her hair, the sweet-smelling thickness of it. My father usually agreed with her requests, because stamped in his two-footed… — Aimee Bender Parenting Copy Share Image
I really like feeling connected to people and feeling like I have a good, solid sense of empathy. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
As a kid, I liked making up stories, and I wrote a story about a kangaroo and a bat with Christy Chang,… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side. — Aimee Bender Ideas Copy Share Image
I have trouble describing my own style, since it's sort of like describing my own eye color or something. — Aimee Bender Color 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 Advice Copy Share Image
Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“Rose,sensing her mother's distress..."She did not face me, but I could feel the vibration of tears, a kind of pain hive,rustling inside… — Aimee Bender Emotional pain Copy Share Image
“We have better things to do. We realize life is not just a dress rehearsal and if you realize it, you don't… — Aimee Bender Better things Copy Share Image
“Ponytail girl leaned over and she and the tall boy kissed and it was carcinogen gums and magical.” — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows… — 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 Art Copy Share Image
