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Aimee Bender
American
Novelist
Born:
Jun 28
,
1969
Because
Good
Love
Me
Think
Writing
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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
Day
Birthday
Happy
Complicated
Cake
Emblem
Something
Tempting
More
Like
Because
Than
Childhood
Just
Happy Birthday
Symbol
Symbolic
Load
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
Success
Love
Failure
Side
Guess
Those
Bad
Would
Would-Be
Could
Fail
Failures
Still
Loss
Going
Successes
Connect
Moments
Connection
Spectrum
When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.
Aimee Bender
Good
Feel Good
Language
Feel
Beautifully
Interestingly
Body
Nourishing
Treated
Rejuvenating
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
Good
Creative
Experience
Writing
Evil
Setting
Programs
Typical
Focusing
Some
Totally
Seem
Obligated
More
Voice
Write
Writers
No-One
Feel
Like
Liked
Felt
Opposite
Were
Where
Story
Really
Creative Writing
Each
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
Myself
Me
Experience
Writing
Mine
Those
Out
Ability
Tend
Most
Make
Metaphor
Often
Move
Human
Autobiographical
Just
Being
Not Interested
Interested
Human Experience
Meaning
Straightforward
Really
Figure
Cool
Describe
Things
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
Balance
Experience
Writing
Try
Think
Able
About
Something
Myopic
Write
Because
Doing
Up
Families
Get
Trying
Any
Want
Interested
Little
Act
Growing
Growing Up
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
Life
Character
Writing
Think
Way
Kind
Some
Magical
Emotional
Tends
Emotional Life
Generally
Most
Access
Element
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
Love
Time
People
Kind
Fraught
Horrible
About
Adolescence
Write
Exciting
Obsessed
I noticed, when I taught elementary school, how true the squeaky wheel thing is, and how endearing squeaky wheels can be! Because when you're being a squeaky wheel, you're also really letting people know who you are.
Aimee Bender
You
People
School
True
Know
Also
Because
How
Endearing
Wheel
Wheels
Taught
Being
Really
Noticed
Who
Elementary
Elementary School
Letting
Thing
As a kid, I often figured it was good to be patient to a fault.
Aimee Bender
Good
Fault
Be Patient
Patient
Kid
Often
Figured
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
Beautiful
Events
Idea
Like
Also
Messy
Dealing
Very
Frightening
Human
Place
Painful
Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot.
Aimee Bender
Business
Writing
Whatever
Kind
Distressing
Structure
Buffer
Lot
Frightening
Available
Help
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
Writing
Sometimes
Past
Members
About
Hours
Know
Because
Readings
Audience
Audience Members
Roll
Stop
Ask
Figure
Keep
Two
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
You
Will
College
Somewhere
Half
Sense
Kind
About
Something
Stuck
Feel
Revisiting
Did
Artifice
Any
Move
Maybe
Where
Moment
Keep
Play
Plays
Granted, I'm someone who loves words. I've always loved poetry - so it's suited to me.
Aimee Bender
Me
Words
Suited
Someone
Poetry
Always
Loved
Loves
Granted
Who
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
Love
Me
Man
Care
Relatives
Salt
Burger
Think
Corner
Kind
Restaurants
More
Foods
Joint
Like
Terms
French
French Fries
Fries
Childhood
Elderly
Special
Who
Usual
Seasoning
Associate
Associations
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.
Aimee Bender
Good
Character
Strict
Will
Rules
Respond
Out
Finding
Invented
Structure
Schedule
Write
Very
Stop
Information
Really
Even
Set
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