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Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot.

~Aimee Bender

Topics: Available Business Distressing Frightening Help Kind Lot Structure Whatever Writing

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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

Topics: About Ask Audience Because Figure Hours Keep Know Members Past Readings Roll Sometimes Stop Two Writing

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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.

~Aimee Bender

Topics: Because Book Different Enjoy Feel Game Glad Had Marketplace One Thing Pressure Really Rely Salary Sell Teaching Thing Think Want Well Would Write I Think I Can

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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.

~Aimee Bender

Topics: Anything Book Consequences Even First Get Grounded Magical Me Much New New Thing Physical Play Pleasures Then Thing Very World Writing

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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.

~Aimee Bender

Topics: About Because Class Computer Earlier Failed Fiction Front Good Honest Hours Humbling Important Just Keeps Knowing Me Myself Reminder Talking Teaching Think Up While I Think

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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.

~Aimee Bender

Topics: About Any Artifice College Did Feel Half Keep Kind Maybe Moment Move Play Plays Sense Something Somewhere Stuck Where Will You

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

~Aimee Bender

Topics: Always Granted Loved Loves Me Poetry Someone Suited Who Words

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

~Aimee Bender

Topics: After Because Both Built Character Language Out Plot Ticket

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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.

~Aimee Bender

Topics: Else Feeling Find Give Level Lines Me More Nothing Only Say Sentence Sentences Something Sticking Subtle Then Through Two Way Write I Can

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

~Aimee Bender

Topics: Color Describing Eye Like My Own Own Since Something Sort Style Trouble

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: June 28th, 1969

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