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In many cultures, women are sometimes literally kept from learning to read or from going to school.
Alice Mattison
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Alice Mattison
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 18
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New York City
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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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Truly things are better in general now, in America, than in the past.
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I don't really like to tell people to get out drugs.
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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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The making of fiction takes literally what is suggested by our imagination.
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Censorship is all around us, I don't think it's innate.
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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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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 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 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!
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Writers sometimes are paid a great deal of money, but much more frequently they're not paid or are paid only a little bit.
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You can't tell a writer they should just be more confident.
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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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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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Teaching is very important to me, and it has become more important as I get older.
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I love it when people can help me with my work, so I do show it.
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