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I really like feeling connected to people and feeling like I have a good, solid sense of empathy.

~Aimee Bender

Topics: Connected Empathy Feeling Good Like People Really Sense Solid

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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

Topics: Able About Act Any Balance Because Doing Experience Families Get Growing Growing Up Interested Little Something Think Try Trying Up Want Write Writing I Think

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For me as a person, friendships are incredibly important to me, but in writing, they can distract me.

~Aimee Bender

Topics: Distract Friendships Important Incredibly Me Person Writing

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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

Topics: Cook Different Food Great How Like Love Writing I Love

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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

Topics: Access Character Element Emotional Emotional Life Generally Kind Life Magical Most Some Tends Think Way Writing I Think I Can

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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

Topics: Balancing Kind Last Like More Much Novels Over Pages Really Relief Short Short Story Story Stressful Then Two Write

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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.

~Aimee Bender

Topics: Bad Connect Connection Could Fail Failure Failures Going Guess Loss Love Moments Side Spectrum Still Success Successes Those Would

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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.

~Aimee Bender

Topics: About Believe Convey Idea Like Love Numbers Really Thinking I Love

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As a kid, I often figured it was good to be patient to a fault.

~Aimee Bender

Topics: Be Patient Fault Figured Good Kid Often Patient

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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.

~Aimee Bender

Topics: Also Beautiful Dealing Events Frightening Human Idea Like Messy Painful Place Very

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: June 28th, 1969

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