Zitat des Tages von Aimee Bender:
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.
I liked Hans Christian Andersen because the tales were so dark and tragic.
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.
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.
As a kid, I liked making up stories, and I wrote a story about a kangaroo and a bat with Christy Chang, and she went on to become a surgeon.
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.
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.
Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot.
I love the idea of numerology, but I don't really believe in it. But I like thinking about what numbers convey.
I love all the arts - so museums, theatre, music, walks near trees or by the ocean, time with people, psychological readings.
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.
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.
Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
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.
As a kid, I often figured it was good to be patient to a fault.
I love food. I'm not a great cook, but I love to cook, and I like how different it is from writing.
