Aimee Bender Quotes

Reading taught me how to write.

Writing is a communication.

I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along - and I must say I had a good time using them.

Numbersign questionmark you" and "Asterisk exclamation point the world.

Letters are things, not pictures of things.

It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.

To write you have to be able to know how to put words together.

I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.

I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.

Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching.

If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.

I have been fighting over commas all my life.

If you can talk, you can write.

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

I try to write an essay every time I speak.

Write one good clean sentence and put a period at the end of it. Then write another one.

You get used to the exact amount of space between lines. You write a word and then you write an alternate word over it. You want enough room so you can read it, so the lines can't be too close.

Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.

Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

A tired exclamation mark is a question mark.

I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit.

I write in words. I don't write in sounds or in shapes or in flavors.

Each letter has a shape, she told them, one shape in the world and no other, and it is your responsibility to make it perfect.