Writer Quotes by Aimee Bender

8 Writer quotes by Aimee Bender

Aimee Bender’s eight statements on writing are as quirky as her fiction. They offer a quick peek at how she embraces the strange and the surreal, making this a handy starter for anyone intrigued by her style.

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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…

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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…

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As a kid, I liked making up stories, and I wrote a story about a kangaroo and a bat with Christy Chang,…

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Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then it's over, and…

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I get a little myopic in the act of doing any writing. I think I'm not as interested or not as able…

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“In Murakami's short story 'The Kidney-Shaped Stone That Moves Every Day,' the main character is a writer. In describing the act of…

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

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Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot.

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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…

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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…

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“My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope - make yourself a structure you can live inside.”

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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…

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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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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.

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“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,…

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I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food…

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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,…

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“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…

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“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…

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…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.

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“And in it all, the sensation of shaking my fists at the sky, shaking my fists high up to the sky, because that is…

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“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…

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