Aimee Bender Quotes & Sayings
33 most famous Aimee Bender quotes and sayings (novelist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“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.”
“As a kid, I often figured it was good to be patient to a fault.”
“When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.”
“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.”
“I really like feeling connected to people and feeling like I have a good, solid sense of empathy.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I liked Hans Christian Andersen because the tales were so dark and tragic.”
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