American - Novelist | June 28, 1969 -
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
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Generally, I think most of my writing tends to have some kind of magical element to it. That's the way I can access the emotional life of the character.
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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.
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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.
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I love the idea of numerology, but I don't really believe in it. But I like thinking about what numbers convey.
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I noticed, when I taught elementary school, how true the squeaky wheel thing is, and how endearing squeaky wheels can be! Because when you're being a squeaky wheel, you're also really letting people know who you are.
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As a kid, I often figured it was good to be patient to a fault.
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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.
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Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot.
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At readings, audience members sometimes ask if I keep writing past the two hours if I'm on a roll, but I don't. I figure that if I'm on a roll, it's partially because I know I'm about to stop.
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One thing I don't want to feel is marketplace pressure, so I'm really glad I enjoy teaching because I can rely on that for a salary. I think it would be such a different game if I had to write a book that has to sell well.
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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 and very much in this world. Then, I get to play with all the consequences of this new thing.
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