Aimee Bender Quotes

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• But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk…
• While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, the most so far, because she found the saddest thing of…
• We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought…
• I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
• My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
• 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, translated…
• I liked Hans Christian Andersen because the tales were so dark and tragic.
• As a kid, I liked making up stories, and I wrote a story about a kangaroo and a bat with Christy Chang, and she went…
• Some creative writing programs seem evil, but my experience at Irvine was totally the opposite, where I feel like they were really good at focusing…
• I really like feeling connected to people and feeling like I have a good, solid sense of empathy.
• For me as a person, friendships are incredibly important to me, but in writing, they can distract me.
• As a kid, I often figured it was good to be patient to a fault.
• I like the idea of a place that is dealing with painful, messy, frightening, and very human events that is also so beautiful and ethereal.
• Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
• Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot.
• For me, even in my first book, the pleasures of writing anything magical is that it has to be physical. It has to be grounded…
• Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
• In terms of foods for me, I think I have more of the usual associations - foods from childhood that I associate with care and…
• I love all the arts - so museums, theatre, music, walks near trees or by the ocean, time with people, psychological readings.

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