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Aimee Bender

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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. - Aimee Bender
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#Adolescence
#Love
#People
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Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then it's over, and that's kind of a relief. I really like balancing the two. - 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. - Aimee Bender
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For me as a person, friendships are incredibly important to me, but in writing, they can distract me. - Aimee Bender
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#Writing
I really like feeling connected to people and feeling like I have a good, solid sense of empathy. - Aimee Bender
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I don't eschew autobiographical writing, but I'm not interested in mine to be so straightforward. The things that tend to move me the most are often those that I have to figure out its meaning for myself. The human being's ability to make a metaphor to describe a human experience is just really cool. - Aimee Bender
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#Myself
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. - Aimee Bender
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I liked Hans Christian Andersen because the tales were so dark and tragic. - Aimee Bender
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As a kid, I liked making up stories, and I wrote a story about a kangaroo and a bat with Christy Chang, and she went on to become a surgeon. - Aimee Bender
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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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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. - Aimee Bender
#Audience
#Know
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I get a little myopic in the act of doing any writing. I think I'm not as interested or not as able to write about balance, because I think there's something I want to try to get at. I'm trying to get at something about the experience of growing up or about families. - Aimee Bender
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#Doing
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#Trying
When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating. - Aimee Bender
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#Feel Good
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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. - Aimee Bender
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#Childhood
#Love
#Man
#Me
I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day. - Aimee Bender
#Birthday
#Cake
#Childhood
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