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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
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Important
Older
Teaching

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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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Truly things are better in general now, in America, than in the past.
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I don't really like to tell people to get out drugs.
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Maybe we're stuck with who we are.
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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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Sometimes it's interesting to see what people who have too much control need to do to write freely.
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I just like doing it, I like writing.
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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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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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Being part of a community of writers is huge. I really think that's why people go to MFA programs.
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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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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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