I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot. — Aimee Bender Arcs Copy Share Image
...a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there. — Aimee Bender Doritos Copy Share Image
“My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope - make yourself a structure you can live inside.” — Aimee Bender Love Copy Share Image
“Men love to watch two women kiss, but how I love to watch two men.” — Aimee Bender Kissing-quotes Copy Share Image
The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom. — Aimee Bender Bottom 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
“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
…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks. — Aimee Bender Caramel 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
Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language. — Aimee Bender After 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 About Copy Share Image
I really like feeling connected to people and feeling like I have a good, solid sense of empathy. — Aimee Bender Connected 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
“In those days, she let her hair loose, down to her waist, and whenever I met old friends of hers, they would… — Aimee Bender Friendship 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 Able 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
“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
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 About Copy Share Image
“Joseph would reach out to me occasionally, the same way the desert blooms a flower every now and then. You get so… — Aimee Bender Blooms 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
“Though loss did not pass from one person to another liker a baton; it just formed a bigger and bigger pool of… — Aimee Bender Losing a loved one Copy Share Image
“And in it all, the sensation of shaking my fists at the sky, shaking my fists high up to the sky, because… — Aimee Bender Anger 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… — Aimee Bender Chef 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
“The sensor did not seem to be restricted to my mother's food, and there was so much to sort through, a torrent… — Aimee Bender Bread Copy Share Image
Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it… — Aimee Bender Blow Copy Share Image
“She too looked like a regular lady, living in the world- didn't seem particularly with it or excitable or stellar. But that… — Aimee Bender Chef Copy Share Image
“He made a good salary but he did not flaunt it. He’d been raised in Chicago proper by a Lithuanian Jewish mother… — Aimee Bender Dignity 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
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
With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows… — Aimee Bender Apartment 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
“I felt her come by later, as I was dozing off. Her standing, by my bed. The depth of shadow of a… — Aimee Bender Person Felt 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
“He said, I always thought the woman I’d marry would hit me easy, in a bolt of lightning, and there is not… — Aimee Bender Lightning Copy Share Image
We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's… — Aimee Bender Bigger Copy Share Image
