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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
Writers
Littles
Little
Children

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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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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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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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We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think.
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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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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 you have to remember that writing is hard my first editor used to say that to me.
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It's hard to say which of us is luckier, the ones who go through long periods when they can't write or the ones who can write pretty easily.
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I don't really like to tell people to get out drugs.
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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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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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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 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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The making of fiction takes literally what is suggested by our imagination.
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Truly things are better in general now, in America, than in the past.
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Censorship is all around us, I don't think it's innate.
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I don't have the courage not to write all the time.
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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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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.
Alice Mattison