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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
New York
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People
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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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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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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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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 love to read nonfiction and memoir, but I'm mostly interested in the piece of writing more than the person.
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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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I had never written about what it's like to live the life of a writer, and I had never read a book that combined talking about the life of writing and how you can do it, how you can stand it, how you can emotionally manage it, with the choices that we all make on the page.
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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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I love it when people can help me with my work, so I do show it.
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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 don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression.
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You can't tell a writer they should just be more confident.
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I actually think it's sometimes easier for the control freaks to let loose.
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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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Sometimes I write well when I'm very upset.
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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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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 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 just like doing it, I like writing.
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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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