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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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Somehow we have to detach from feeling as though money is a quick and easy standard by which we can gauge how well we're doing.
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I don't really like to tell people to get out drugs.
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We have to give our poor, innocent, and undeserving-of-our-badness characters trouble in order to make them characters in a story.
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You can't tell a writer they should just be more confident.
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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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Teaching is very important to me, and it has become more important as I get older.
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Telling someone to be confident in the abstract is not going to make it easier for the unconfident writer to actually get herself or himself to the point of being able to put in the upsetting stuff.
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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 think you have to remember that writing is hard my first editor used to say that to me.
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Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know for a long time how to do it.
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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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Sometimes I write well when I'm very upset.
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I love it when people can help me with my work, so I do show it.
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I just like doing it, I like writing.
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Inevitably we start by thinking that if our work is any good, we'll get money. It's as we would if you started up a business or if you work in another profession.
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Truly things are better in general now, in America, than in the past.
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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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In many cultures, women are sometimes literally kept from learning to read or from going to school.
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Little children are all writers.
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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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