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Little children are all writers.

Alice Mattison

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Alice Mattison
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 18
Novelist
New York City
New York
Littles
Little
Children
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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We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think.
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Sometimes it's interesting to see what people who have too much control need to do to write freely.
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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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The making of fiction takes literally what is suggested by our imagination.
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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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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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Sometimes I write well when I'm very upset.
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Truly things are better in general now, in America, than in the past.
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Sometimes people want to know how to write a story from the point of view of a murderer and make her sympathetic. I think the answer is that you start by having her look for her car keys, because everybody knows what it's like.
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There are so many different ways, most of them helpful and legal, to get yourself into a state of mind where writing is possible. It's going to be different for each person.
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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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I don't really like to tell people to get out drugs.
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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 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 love it when people can help me with my work, so I do show it.
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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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Anyone with an imagination can write about the day-to-day experiences of someone he or she is not.
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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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You can't tell a writer they should just be more confident.
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