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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
Important
Older
Teaching
Become

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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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We're always inventing, even if we're making someone who's fairly close to ourselves.
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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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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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The main thing is to explain to yourself that everybody suffers.
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I think that inevitably, the trouble our characters go through is a kind of metaphor for what's happening in ourselves.
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You can't tell a writer they should just be more confident.
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I'm very secretive. I'll write a whole novel and revise it, which might take me two years or more, and the people I know best don't know what I'm writing about.
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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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There are so many different ways, most of them helpful and legal, to get yourself into a state of mind where writing is possible. It's going to be different for each person.
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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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Maybe we're stuck with who we are.
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Little children are all writers.
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Sometimes indirect style and varying chronology is great, but quite often I've seen it be just something that gets in the way. It turns out when I talk to the writer that she or he, and more often it's a woman, that she's worried.
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I don't really like to tell people to get out drugs.
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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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I think the difference between writing as someone and writing for them is that when you write for someone, you take on a kind of political burden or message, which I don't think we have the right to do.
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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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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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