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.
I love it when people can help me with my work, so I do show it. - Alice Mattison
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
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…
We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think. - Alice Mattison
We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think.
There's the belief that we can't be smart enough to write. And certainly censorship of women, too. - Alice Mattison
There's the belief that we can't be smart enough to write. And certainly censorship of women, too.
In many cultures, women are sometimes literally kept from learning to read or from going to school. - Alice Mattison
In many cultures, women are sometimes literally kept from learning to read or from going to school.
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 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…
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 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.
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 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!
I think you have to remember that writing is hard; my first editor used to say that to me. - Alice Mattison
I think you have to remember that writing is hard; my first editor used to say that to me.
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