I love it when people can help me with my work, so I do show it. — Alice Mattison Help me Copy Share Image
Truly things are better in general now, in America, than in the past. — Alice Mattison America Copy Share Image
Teaching is very important to me, and it has become more important as I get older. — Alice Mattison Education Copy Share Image
The main thing is to explain to yourself that everybody suffers. — Alice Mattison Suffering Copy Share Image
There's the belief that we can't be smart enough to write. And certainly censorship of women, too. — Alice Mattison Being smart Copy Share Image
I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression. — Alice Mattison Black Copy Share Image
Somehow we have to detach from feeling as though money is a quick and easy standard by which we can gauge how… — Alice Mattison Easy Copy Share Image
I think a day in your life on which nothing bad happens may be a wonderful day, but it probably isn't going… — Alice Mattison Bases Copy Share Image
There seems to be a tremendous desire among many people now to know authors and how they work, to know what's autobiographical… — Alice Mattison Autobiographical Copy Share Image
You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it. — Alice Mattison Fiction Copy Share Image
There is a lot of censorship about writing that's exerted from all directions, from families or governments and society, even the fear… — Alice Mattison Censorship Copy Share Image
Being part of a community of writers is huge. I really think that's why people go to MFA programs. — Alice Mattison Community Copy Share Image
Sometimes people want to know how to write a story from the point of view of a murderer and make her sympathetic.… — Alice Mattison Answers Copy Share Image
If you have a character stand up and put on her shoes and open the door, in order to do that, you're… — Alice Mattison Character Copy Share Image
I think the difference between writing as someone and writing for them is that when you write for someone, you take on… — Alice Mattison Burden Copy Share Image
I've been astonished how often, when I convince a writer to tell a story more straightforwardly and to tell it more simply… — Alice Mattison Books Copy Share Image
Even murderers, I suppose, experience the loss of car keys the way the rest of us do. I mean, how can they… — Alice Mattison Car Copy Share Image
For some people, it's very easy to be spontaneous and they can pour out the most wonderful stuff. But it's really hard… — Alice Mattison Be spontaneous Copy Share Image
I began to see, again and again, stories that were first confusing and second where the emotional impact was muted because the… — Alice Mattison Again and again Copy Share Image
We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think. — Alice Mattison Culture Copy Share Image
