Writing Quotes by Alice Mattison

Alice Mattison

There’s the belief that we can’t be smart enough to write. And certainly censorship of women, too.

Belief

Smart

Writing

Alice Mattison

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.

Helping Others

People

Writing

Alice Mattison

We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think.

People

Thinking

Writing

Alice Mattison

When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice.

Differences

Editors

Writing

Alice Mattison

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.

Book

Long

Writing

Alice Mattison

You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.

Mirrors

People

Writing

Alice Mattison

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.

Meaningful

Style

Writing

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Accepted

America

Belief

Book

Caring

Character

Children

Clever

Couple

Desire

Differences

Different

Drug

Easy

Editors

Emotional

Excited

Feelings

Gauges

Get Money

Giving

Government

Help Me

Helping

Helping Others

Hollywood

Ideas

Important

Keys

Kids

Kind

Knows

Littles

Live Life

Long

Loss

May

Mean

Meaningful

Mind

Mirrors

Mother

Needs

Opposites

Order

Past

People

Periods

Profession

Real

Running

Scary

Smart

Sometimes

Stories

Stuck

Students

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Teaching

Thinking

Two

Upset

Views

Way

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Writing

Years

Writing Quotes by Alice Mattison

There’s the belief that we can’t be smart enough to write. And certainly censorship of women, too.

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.

We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think.

When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice.

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.

You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.

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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