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Aimee Bender Quotes

American - Novelist | June 28, 1969 -

I think teaching keeps me honest because if I'm up in front of a class talking about what I think is important about fiction while knowing I myself have just failed to do that hours earlier at my computer - it's a good and humbling reminder.

Good Myself Me Think Talking Class

I did plays in college, and I have half of a play. But I'm kind of stuck. I keep revisiting it so maybe it will move somewhere. There's something about plays where you can feel that sense of artifice at any moment.

Moment College Feel You Play Kind

Granted, I'm someone who loves words. I've always loved poetry - so it's suited to me.

Words Poetry Me Loved Someone Who

Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.

Character Language Out Ticket Plot

I find I can write for two lines, and then I have nothing else to say. For me, the only way to find something comes through the sentence level and sticking with the sentences that give a subtle feeling that there's something more to say.

Me Feeling Find I Can Say Nothing

I have trouble describing my own style, since it's sort of like describing my own eye color or something.

Style Eye Color Trouble My Own Own

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.

Good Character Finding Information

I love all the arts - so museums, theatre, music, walks near trees or by the ocean, time with people, psychological readings.

Love Music Time Ocean People Trees

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