Excited Quote by Alice Mattison

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…

— Alice Mattison

Every once in a while someone says, 'You can't really learn anything, if you're really a writer then you wouldn't need to do it.'…

— 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…

— Alice Mattison

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.

— Alice Mattison

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…

— Alice Mattison

“When a man I like touches my arm or my hair, I want to know if he'll touch the center of me, and whatever…

— Alice Mattison

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…

— Alice Mattison

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,…

— Alice Mattison

I love to read nonfiction and memoir, but I'm mostly interested in the piece of writing more than the person.

— Alice Mattison

I think that inevitably, the trouble our characters go through is a kind of metaphor for what's happening in ourselves.

— Alice Mattison

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

— Alice Mattison

Writers sometimes are paid a great deal of money, but much more frequently they're not paid or are paid only a little bit.

— Alice Mattison