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Teaching is very important to me, and it has become more important as I get older.

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Alice Mattison
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 18
Novelist
New York City
New York
Older
Teaching
Become
Important

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There's the belief that we can't be smart enough to write. And certainly censorship of women, too.
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You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.
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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.
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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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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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Anyone with an imagination can write about the day-to-day experiences of someone he or she is not.
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I actually think it's sometimes easier for the control freaks to let loose.
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I don't have the courage not to write all the time.
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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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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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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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The main thing is to explain to yourself that everybody suffers.
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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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Little children are all writers.
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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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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'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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Maybe we're stuck with who we are.
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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 don't really like to tell people to get out drugs.
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