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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.
Alice Mattison
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Alice Mattison
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 18
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You can't tell a writer they should just be more confident.
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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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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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I think you have to remember that writing is hard my first editor used to say that to me.
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Censorship is all around us, I don't think it's innate.
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Truly things are better in general now, in America, than in the past.
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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 I write well when I'm very upset.
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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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The making of fiction takes literally what is suggested by our imagination.
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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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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 love to read nonfiction and memoir, but I'm mostly interested in the piece of writing more than the person.
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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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I love it when people can help me with my work, so I do show it.
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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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I just like doing it, I like writing.
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