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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
Children
Writers
Littles
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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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You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.
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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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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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I think you have to remember that writing is hard my first editor used to say that to me.
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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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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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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 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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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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I just like doing it, I like writing.
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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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Sometimes it's interesting to see what people who have too much control need to do to write freely.
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I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression.
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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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Truly things are better in general now, in America, than in the past.
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I love it when people can help me with my work, so I do show it.
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Maybe we're stuck with who we are.
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I don't have the courage not to write all the time.
Alice Mattison