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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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Drugs
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If you have a character stand up and put on her shoes and open the door, in order to do that, you're imagining her shoes and her clothes and her house and her door. The character becomes more real. But once you've done that, you can probably just get it all across with a couple of details.
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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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There's the belief that we can't be smart enough to write. And certainly censorship of women, too.
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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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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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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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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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Little children are all writers.
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Sometimes I write well when I'm very upset.
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I just like doing it, I like writing.
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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 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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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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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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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 don't have the courage not to write all the time.
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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 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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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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