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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
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New York City
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The main thing is to explain to yourself that everybody suffers.
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I actually think it's sometimes easier for the control freaks to let loose.
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I think we need to develop the courage to write from the viewpoint of people who may seem quite different from ourselves, who might have a different sexual orientation or a different race or a different ethnicity.
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You may be somebody who writes best for a small press that doesn't pay very well, but you might have a fascinating and intricate style that might not appeal to as many readers but will be incredibly meaningful to the readers you have. Truly, that's as wonderful if not more wonderful.
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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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I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by doing it wrong.' I can't bear that!
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I find that I get very excited about what my students are up to and that I get to be the hurdle they need to jump over.
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I get to a certain point, and I think in a novel it's about the third draft, when I want other eyes on it.
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There are so many different ways, most of them helpful and legal, to get yourself into a state of mind where writing is possible. It's going to be different for each person.
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I had never written about what it's like to live the life of a writer, and I had never read a book that combined talking about the life of writing and how you can do it, how you can stand it, how you can emotionally manage it, with the choices that we all make on the page.
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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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Writers sometimes are paid a great deal of money, but much more frequently they're not paid or are paid only a little bit.
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The making of fiction takes literally what is suggested by our imagination.
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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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Teaching is very important to me, and it has become more important as I get older.
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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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Certainly children are being encouraged far more than they were seventy-five years ago and are more accepted as they are.
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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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I think the difference between writing as someone and writing for them is that when you write for someone, you take on a kind of political burden or message, which I don't think we have the right to do.
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I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts.
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