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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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You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.
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Teaching is very important to me, and it has become more important as I get older.
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The main thing is to explain to yourself that everybody suffers.
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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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In many cultures, women are sometimes literally kept from learning to read or from going to school.
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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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I just like doing it, I like writing.
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I've been astonished how often, when I convince a writer to tell a story more straightforwardly and to tell it more simply and directly, it turns out that this author is great and the story is wonderful.
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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'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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Being part of a community of writers is huge. I really think that's why people go to MFA programs.
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I actually think it's sometimes easier for the control freaks to let loose.
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When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice.
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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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There's the belief that we can't be smart enough to write. And certainly censorship of women, too.
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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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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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Truly things are better in general now, in America, than in the past.
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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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We're always inventing, even if we're making someone who's fairly close to ourselves.
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