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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
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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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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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I think a day in your life on which nothing bad happens may be a wonderful day, but it probably isn't going to be the basis of a story.
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Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know for a long time how to do it.
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We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think.
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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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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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It's hard to say which of us is luckier, the ones who go through long periods when they can't write or the ones who can write pretty easily.
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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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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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You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.
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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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Censorship is all around us, I don't think it's innate.
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Sometimes people want to know how to write a story from the point of view of a murderer and make her sympathetic. I think the answer is that you start by having her look for her car keys, because everybody knows what it's like.
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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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We're always inventing, even if we're making someone who's fairly close to ourselves.
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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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Being part of a community of writers is huge. I really think that's why people go to MFA programs.
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I've been astonished how often, when I convince a writer to tell a story more straightforwardly and to tell it more simply and directly, it turns out that this author is great and the story is wonderful.
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