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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.
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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We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think.
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I don't really like to tell people to get out drugs.
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