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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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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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Writers sometimes are paid a great deal of money, but much more frequently they're not paid or are paid only a little bit.
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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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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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I think that inevitably, the trouble our characters go through is a kind of metaphor for what's happening in ourselves.
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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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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'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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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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The main thing is to explain to yourself that everybody suffers.
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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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In many cultures, women are sometimes literally kept from learning to read or from going to school.
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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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There is a lot of censorship about writing that's exerted from all directions, from families or governments and society, even the fear of being offensive in some way.
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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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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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I think you have to remember that writing is hard my first editor used to say that to me.
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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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You can't tell a writer they should just be more confident.
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