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I don't really like to tell people to get out drugs.

Alice Mattison

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Alice Mattison
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 18
Novelist
New York City
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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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Little children are all writers.
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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 main thing is to explain to yourself that everybody suffers.
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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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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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We're always inventing, even if we're making someone who's fairly close to ourselves.
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You can't tell a writer they should just be more confident.
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There seems to be a tremendous desire among many people now to know authors and how they work, to know what's autobiographical and what isn't.
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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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The making of fiction takes literally what is suggested by our imagination.
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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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Telling someone to be confident in the abstract is not going to make it easier for the unconfident writer to actually get herself or himself to the point of being able to put in the upsetting stuff.
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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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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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There's the belief that we can't be smart enough to write. And certainly censorship of women, too.
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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 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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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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