Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“The world can ask you to participate, but it's a day-today decision if you want to agree to that proposal.” — Aimee Bender Depression Copy Share Image
When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our… — Aimee Bender Ghost 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
Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot. — Aimee Bender 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
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
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
As a kid, I liked making up stories, and I wrote a story about a kangaroo and a bat with Christy Chang,… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
For me, even in my first book, the pleasures of writing anything magical is that it has to be physical. It has… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I don't eschew autobiographical writing, but I'm not interested in mine to be so straightforward. The things that tend to move me… — Aimee Bender Ability 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… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Glen Hirshberg's stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content -- the stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they… — Aimee Bender Books 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… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“With hand gestures, you can fill in a lot of gaps, and the words thing and stuff and -ness also help: patientness… — Aimee Bender Gestures 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 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
“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
“The people were all busy in their cars, listening to the radio, so there was no one to smile at, so I… — Aimee Bender First person 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 Baking 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 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 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
“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
“Does it work with sandwiches? he asked. I didn't move. He handed it over. George was watching with a kind of neutral… — Aimee Bender Food Copy Share Image
I really like feeling connected to people and feeling like I have a good, solid sense of empathy. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room… — Aimee Bender Babysitter 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 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
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
With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“Ponytail girl leaned over and she and the tall boy kissed and it was carcinogen gums and magical.” — Aimee Bender 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
Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, the most so far, because she found the… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
