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Sometimes it's interesting to see what people who have too much control need to do to write freely.
Alice Mattison
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Alice Mattison
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 18
Novelist
New York City
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I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression.
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Sometimes people want to know how to write a story from the point of view of a murderer and make her sympathetic. I think the answer is that you start by having her look for her car keys, because everybody knows what it's like.
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I think you have to remember that writing is hard my first editor used to say that to me.
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Sometimes indirect style and varying chronology is great, but quite often I've seen it be just something that gets in the way. It turns out when I talk to the writer that she or he, and more often it's a woman, that she's worried.
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I love it when people can help me with my work, so I do show it.
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The main thing is to explain to yourself that everybody suffers.
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I think that inevitably, the trouble our characters go through is a kind of metaphor for what's happening in ourselves.
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It's a scary thing for fiction writers, when you're always writing from the point of view both as and for someone who is different.
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There is a lot of censorship about writing that's exerted from all directions, from families or governments and society, even the fear of being offensive in some way.
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I don't have the courage not to write all the time.
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I think a day in your life on which nothing bad happens may be a wonderful day, but it probably isn't going to be the basis of a story.
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It's hard to say which of us is luckier, the ones who go through long periods when they can't write or the ones who can write pretty easily.
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We have to diversify, we have to find work we can do that helps other people while helping ourselves, work that has to do with writing that isn't necessarily just writing saleable novels or getting huge advances.
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There's the belief that we can't be smart enough to write. And certainly censorship of women, too.
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Anyone with an imagination can write about the day-to-day experiences of someone he or she is not.
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Being part of a community of writers is huge. I really think that's why people go to MFA programs.
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I don't really like to tell people to get out drugs.
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You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.
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There seems to be a tremendous desire among many people now to know authors and how they work, to know what's autobiographical and what isn't.
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Censorship is all around us, I don't think it's innate.
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