Aimee Bender Good Quotations

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.

When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.

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

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

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.

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.