Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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.' But I think what people need is the sense of not being alone. They go to MFA programs to be part of a community of people who care, and then you start caring about your friend who is trying to edit a magazine and your other friend who is stuck in the middle of her poem. There you have all kinds of things to worry about besides your own success.

Alice Mattison's Popular Quotes

I love it when people can help me with my work, so I do show it.

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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 t…

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

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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 offen…

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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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I think you have to remember that writing is hard; my first editor used to say that to me.

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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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In many cultures, women are sometimes literally kept from learning to read or from going to school.

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