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I love it when people can help me with my work, so I do show it.

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Alice Mattison
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 18
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New York City
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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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You can't tell a writer they should just be more confident.
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When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice.
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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.
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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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Teaching is very important to me, and it has become more important as I get older.
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Sometimes I write well when I'm very upset.
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Little children are all writers.
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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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Maybe we're stuck with who we are.
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Truly things are better in general now, in America, than in the past.
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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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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 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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In many cultures, women are sometimes literally kept from learning to read or from going to school.
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I actually think it's sometimes easier for the control freaks to let loose.
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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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When I've taught writing to five, six, and seven year olds, it's not very different than talking to an adult writer. They're writers then, and when they get to be young teenagers they're not anymore. You might go and talk to them about writing, and they'll be very self-conscious or will have detached themselves from the group.
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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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We're always inventing, even if we're making someone who's fairly close to ourselves.
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