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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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We're always inventing, even if we're making someone who's fairly close to ourselves.
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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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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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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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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 get to a certain point, and I think in a novel it's about the third draft, when I want other eyes on 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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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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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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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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I actually think it's sometimes easier for the control freaks to let loose.
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Sometimes I write well when I'm very upset.
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You may be somebody who writes best for a small press that doesn't pay very well, but you might have a fascinating and intricate style that might not appeal to as many readers but will be incredibly meaningful to the readers you have. Truly, that's as wonderful if not more wonderful.
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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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I think you have to remember that writing is hard my first editor used to say that to me.
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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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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 still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think.
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