“I think teaching keeps me honest because if I'm up in front of a class...” — Aimee Bender Quote

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I have always enjoyed keeping. I used to keep earlier for my state and later didn't have much chance to keep. But I keep myself ready if ever anyone wants me to keep.”

“I only know acting. But had I learnt singing earlier, I would have become a singer.”

“I like to keep things deceptively simple, but hard-hitting. You can reduce everything to the perfect, essential harmony. It's what used to be done with earlier music like Gregorian chants.”