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I just like doing it, I like writing.

Alice Mattison

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Alice Mattison
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 18
Novelist
New York City
New York
Writing
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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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Little children are all writers.
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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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Maybe we're stuck with who we are.
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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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I don't really like to tell people to get out drugs.
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Telling someone to be confident in the abstract is not going to make it easier for the unconfident writer to actually get herself or himself to the point of being able to put in the upsetting stuff.
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I actually think it's sometimes easier for the control freaks to let loose.
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The making of fiction takes literally what is suggested by our imagination.
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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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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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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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We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think.
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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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Being part of a community of writers is huge. I really think that's why people go to MFA programs.
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Sometimes I write well when I'm very upset.
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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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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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Truly things are better in general now, in America, than in the past.
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