I love it when people can help me with my work, so I do show 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, and when t…

- Alice Mattison

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

- Alice Mattison

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…

- Alice Mattison

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

- Alice Mattison

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

- Alice Mattison

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.

- 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 wrong.' I can't bear that!

- Alice Mattison

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

- Alice Mattison