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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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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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Truly things are better in general now, in America, than in the past.
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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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We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think.
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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 don't have the courage not to write all the time.
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I had never written about what it's like to live the life of a writer, and I had never read a book that combined talking about the life of writing and how you can do it, how you can stand it, how you can emotionally manage it, with the choices that we all make on the page.
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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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I actually think it's sometimes easier for the control freaks to let loose.
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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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Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know for a long time how to do it.
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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 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 don't really like to tell people to get out drugs.
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You can't tell a writer they should just be more confident.
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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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Sometimes I write well when I'm very upset.
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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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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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I just like doing it, I like writing.
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