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

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Alice Mattison
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 18
Novelist
New York City
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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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The main thing is to explain to yourself that everybody suffers.
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I don't have the courage not to write all the time.
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You can't tell a writer they should just be more confident.
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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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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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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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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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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 just like doing it, I like writing.
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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 love to read nonfiction and memoir, but I'm mostly interested in the piece of writing more than the person.
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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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Maybe we're stuck with who we are.
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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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Censorship is all around us, I don't think it's innate.
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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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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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There's the belief that we can't be smart enough to write. And certainly censorship of women, too.
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