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
mom daughter brother
Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn't love me - I felt the wash of her love every day, pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.
spring revealing happens
It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
people giving corn
I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
mother air littles
That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother's palm and fingertips, he was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I'd always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph's part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.
tears groups away-from-each-other
I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.
lovers evolution reverse
My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
finding good information invented respond stop strict structure
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 out good information on a character, I will stop when I'm set to stop.
creative experience felt focusing good liked obligated programs seem totally voice writers
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 in on each writers voice and setting. When I felt like I was obligated to write a story that was more typical, no one really liked it.
bad connection fail failure love moments spectrum success successes
There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from super-large successes to failures. Success would be love, I guess, and failure could still be love, but the bad side; and loss.
christian dark liked tales
I liked Hans Christian Andersen because the tales were so dark and tragic.
associate burger corner elderly foods french fries love man relatives salt seasoning special terms usual
In terms of foods for me, I think I have more of the usual associations - foods from childhood that I associate with care and love, from relatives or special restaurants like the kind elderly man who dusted seasoning salt on French fries at the corner burger joint.
figured good
As a kid, I often figured it was good to be patient to a fault.
connected good people solid
I really like feeling connected to people and feeling like I have a good, solid sense of empathy.
dealing human
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.