“I loved my brother, but relying on him was like closing a hand around air.” — Aimee Bender Brother Copy Share Image
I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant. — Aimee Bender Echo Copy Share Image
Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped. — Aimee Bender Magazines Copy Share Image
I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q... — Aimee Bender Circle Copy Share Image
The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious. — Aimee Bender Good Copy Share Image
“Being there was like having a good cry, the clearing of the air after weight has been held.” — Aimee Bender Held Copy Share Image
I love food. I'm not a great cook, but I love to cook, and I like how different it is from writing. — Aimee Bender Cook Copy Share Image
When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating. — Aimee Bender Beautifully Copy Share Image
Generally, I think most of my writing tends to have some kind of magical element to it. That's the way I can… — Aimee Bender Access 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… — Aimee Bender Clothes 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 About Copy Share Image
“I will never die, thought the cake to itself, in even simpler terms, as cakes did not have sophisticated use of language.” — Aimee Bender Cake Copy Share Image
Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to… — Aimee Bender Feelings Copy Share Image
Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language. — Aimee Bender After Copy Share Image
But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think? Before… — Aimee Bender Believe 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… — Aimee Bender Children Copy Share Image
“In general, I call her every night, and we talk for an hour, which is forty-five minutes of me, and fifteen minutes… — Aimee Bender Buddhism Copy Share Image
“She looked over my shoulder once while I was texting, which was already annoying, and when I wrote lol she made a… — Aimee Bender Humor Copy Share Image
and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a… — Aimee Bender Blooming Copy Share Image
“Twice I'd come home as they were finishing, and, honestly, I cannot think of a lonelier sound on a Saturday night than… — Aimee Bender College 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… — Aimee Bender Because Copy Share Image
Some creative writing programs seem evil, but my experience at Irvine was totally the opposite, where I feel like they were really… — Aimee Bender Creative Copy Share Image
“I've noticed this: when it's the first date, and you fuck, the guy hold you much better than he does the next… — Aimee Bender Date Copy Share Image
“The room filled with the smell of warming butter and sugar and lemon and eggs, and at five, the timer buzzed and… — Aimee Bender Cake Copy Share Image
“In the evenings, my father and I ate dinner quietly in front of the TV together. Wednesday night, Thursday. Frozen dinners I'd… — Aimee Bender Enchiladas Copy Share Image
“What I taste, I said, reading from my page, is what I remember from my last Dorito, plus the chemicals that are… — Aimee Bender Doritos Copy Share Image
“My mouth- always so active, alert- could now generally identify forty of fifty states in the produce or meat I ate. I… — Aimee Bender Food Copy Share Image
“I bit into the chocolate chip. Slowed myself down. By then, almost a week in, I could sort through the assault of… — Aimee Bender Anger Copy Share Image
That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother's palm and… — Aimee Bender Air 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 Books Copy Share Image
It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments. — Aimee Bender Lowest Copy Share Image
As a kid, I often figured it was good to be patient to a fault. — Aimee Bender Be patient Copy Share Image
I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it. — Aimee Bender Folded Copy Share Image
“It was ridiculous, at times, how many tears one body could produce.” — Aimee Bender Body Copy Share Image
