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I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by doing it wrong.' I can't bear that!
Alice Mattison
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Alice Mattison
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 18
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We're always inventing, even if we're making someone who's fairly close to ourselves.
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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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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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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 don't have the courage not to write all the time.
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I think you have to remember that writing is hard my first editor used to say that to me.
Alice Mattison
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.
Alice Mattison
I love it when people can help me with my work, so I do show it.
Alice Mattison
I actually think it's sometimes easier for the control freaks to let loose.
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Little children are all writers.
Alice Mattison
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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Certainly children are being encouraged far more than they were seventy-five years ago and are more accepted as they are.
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Censorship is all around us, I don't think it's innate.
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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 people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts.
Alice Mattison
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.
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Sometimes I write well when I'm very upset.
Alice Mattison
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.
Alice Mattison
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.
Alice Mattison
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.
Alice Mattison
