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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.

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  Aimee Bender
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Aimee Bender (born June 28, 1969) is an American novelist and short story writer, known for her surreal plots and characters.

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I love all the arts - so museums, theatre, music, walks near trees or by the ocean, time with people, psychological readings.

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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.

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

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 Tags: Style Color Eye Trouble My Own Own
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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.

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 Tags: Me Feeling Way Nothing Say More
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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.

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

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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.

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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.

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