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I love to read nonfiction and memoir, but I'm mostly interested in the piece of writing more than the person.

Alice Mattison

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Alice Mattison
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 18
Novelist
New York City
New York
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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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I don't have the courage not to write all the time.
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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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Truly things are better in general now, in America, than in the past.
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I just like doing it, I like writing.
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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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You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.
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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 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 actually think it's sometimes easier for the control freaks to let loose.
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The making of fiction takes literally what is suggested by our imagination.
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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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Little children are all writers.
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Sometimes it's interesting to see what people who have too much control need to do to write freely.
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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'm very secretive. I'll write a whole novel and revise it, which might take me two years or more, and the people I know best don't know what I'm writing about.
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