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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
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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 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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When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice.
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I don't have the courage not to write all the time.
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Inevitably we start by thinking that if our work is any good, we'll get money. It's as we would if you started up a business or if you work in another profession.
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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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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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The making of fiction takes literally what is suggested by our imagination.
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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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Maybe we're stuck with who we are.
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I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression.
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Little children are all writers.
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Censorship is all around us, I don't think it's innate.
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I think a day in your life on which nothing bad happens may be a wonderful day, but it probably isn't going to be the basis of a story.
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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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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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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 it's interesting to see what people who have too much control need to do to write freely.
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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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