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
“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
I like the idea of a place that is dealing with painful, messy, frightening, and very human events that is also so… — Aimee Bender Also 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
I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope. — Aimee Bender Agree Copy Share Image
Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped. — Aimee Bender Magazines Copy Share Image
“And, sure, fine, I do check my phone about every two minutes, but so do a lot of people, and it's better… — Aimee Bender Addiction Copy Share Image
“On the kitchen counter, she'd set out the ingredients: Flour bag, sugar box, two brown eggs nestled in the grooves between tiles.… — Aimee Bender Birthday cake Copy Share Image
I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it. — Aimee Bender Space Copy Share Image
“...part of trying to attract those poet-men was to look a little like I had wandered onto campus by accident after having… — Aimee Bender Poetry Copy Share Image
“My birthday cake was her latest project because it was not from a mix but instead built from scratch- the flour, the… — Aimee Bender Birthday cake 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
To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude. — Aimee Bender Barometer Copy Share Image
Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children... It was a fleeting statement, one I didn't… — Aimee Bender Children 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
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
“In Murakami's short story 'The Kidney-Shaped Stone That Moves Every Day,' the main character is a writer. In describing the act of… — Aimee Bender Every day Copy Share Image
I noticed, when I taught elementary school, how true the squeaky wheel thing is, and how endearing squeaky wheels can be! Because… — Aimee Bender Also Copy Share Image
Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn't love me - I felt the wash of her love every day, pouring… — Aimee Bender Bodies of water 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 Copy Share Image
I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because… — Aimee Bender Birthday Copy Share Image
“When we sleep together, he holds me like he loves me. I've noticed this: when it's the first date, and you fuck,… — Aimee Bender First date Copy Share Image
In terms of foods for me, I think I have more of the usual associations - foods from childhood that I associate… — Aimee Bender Associate Copy Share Image
“My birthday is in March, and that year it fell during an especially bright spring week, vivid and clear in the narrow… — Aimee Bender Birthday Copy Share Image
My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want. — Aimee Bender Caves Copy Share Image
