Mysterious Quote by Aimee Bender Download Open image “The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious.” — Aimee Bender ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mysterious Thinking Writing
Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy. — Michael Arndt Copy Share Image
We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up. — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary fiction expects… — Rosemary Clement-Moore Copy Share Image
As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether it's good… — Lisa Edelstein Copy Share Image
Good writing is often about trying to investigate something you feel is missing and trying to put it back. — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
“Good literature boils down to two things: How interesting is the story you are telling, and how interesting is your telling.” — Hillel F. Damron 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 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 would be… — 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 maybe it… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope - make yourself a structure you can live inside.” — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
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 Image
Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date… — Patty Duke Copy Share Image
In recent years my understanding of God had evolved into increasingly remote abstractions. I'd come to think of God in terms like Divine Reality,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“And when I’d settled down, I considered the possibility that I wasn’t yet ready to ask for the love of anyone because I had… — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
Talking to other people about a part is not helpful for me. It's such an internal and complicated and still kind of mysterious process. — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
A blue eye is a true eye; Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark sun! A black eye is the best… — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image