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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
Novelist
New York City
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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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In many cultures, women are sometimes literally kept from learning to read or from going to school.
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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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Censorship is all around us, I don't think it's innate.
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Anyone with an imagination can write about the day-to-day experiences of someone he or she is not.
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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 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 don't really like to tell people to get out drugs.
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I don't have the courage not to write all the time.
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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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There's the belief that we can't be smart enough to write. And certainly censorship of women, too.
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Truly things are better in general now, in America, than in the past.
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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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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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Sometimes indirect style and varying chronology is great, but quite often I've seen it be just something that gets in the way. It turns out when I talk to the writer that she or he, and more often it's a woman, that she's worried.
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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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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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If you have a character stand up and put on her shoes and open the door, in order to do that, you're imagining her shoes and her clothes and her house and her door. The character becomes more real. But once you've done that, you can probably just get it all across with a couple of details.
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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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