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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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Drugs
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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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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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Truly things are better in general now, in America, than in the past.
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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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I don't have the courage not to write all the time.
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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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It's a scary thing for fiction writers, when you're always writing from the point of view both as and for someone who is different.
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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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Censorship is all around us, I don't think it's innate.
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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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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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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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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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I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts.
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I just like doing it, I like writing.
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Anyone with an imagination can write about the day-to-day experiences of someone he or she is not.
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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 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 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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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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