Anything Quote by Aimee Bender

“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

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

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

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

— Aimee Bender

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

Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.

— Aimee Bender

I give boring people something to discuss over corn.

— Aimee Bender

“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

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

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

“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

“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