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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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Sometimes I write well when I'm very upset.
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Writers sometimes are paid a great deal of money, but much more frequently they're not paid or are paid only a little bit.
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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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In many cultures, women are sometimes literally kept from learning to read or from going to school.
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Teaching is very important to me, and it has become more important as I get older.
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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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Anyone with an imagination can write about the day-to-day experiences of someone he or she is not.
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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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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 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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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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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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You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.
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I think you have to remember that writing is hard my first editor used to say that to me.
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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 just like doing it, I like writing.
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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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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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