Aimee Bender
Aimee Bender
Aimee Benderis an American novelist and short story writer, known for her surreal plots and characters...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 June 1969
CountryUnited States of America
moments rescue surprising
It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
yellow light lamps
Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.
mom pages magazines
Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
circles tails edges
I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q...
writing people kind
I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
want caves eyelids
My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
space lines dots
I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
life mother baby
I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son; she is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.
nuts trying seems
You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
feel-good body language
When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.
writing feelings lovely
Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
focus ruins ifs
You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
character tickets plot
Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
writing pages best-work
It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things...