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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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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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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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Sometimes I write well when I'm very upset.
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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 just like doing it, I like writing.
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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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You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.
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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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Truly things are better in general now, in America, than in the past.
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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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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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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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There is a lot of censorship about writing that's exerted from all directions, from families or governments and society, even the fear of being offensive in some way.
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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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I think you have to remember that writing is hard my first editor used to say that to me.
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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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Anyone with an imagination can write about the day-to-day experiences of someone he or she is not.
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In many cultures, women are sometimes literally kept from learning to read or from going to school.
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