Quotes by Writing Anyone with an imagination can write about the day-to-day experiences of someone he or she is not. Alice Mattison day-to-dayimaginationwriting I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression. Alice Mattison whitewritingthinking I think the difference between writing as someone and writing for them is that when you write for someone, you take on a kind of political burden or message, which I don't think we have the right to do. Alice Mattison differenceswritingthinking I think we need to develop the courage to write from the viewpoint of people who may seem quite different from ourselves, who might have a different sexual orientation or a different race or a different ethnicity. Alice Mattison racewritingthinking I had never written about what it's like to live the life of a writer, and I had never read a book that combined talking about the life of writing and how you can do it, how you can stand it, how you can emotionally manage it, with the choices that we all make on the page. Alice Mattison live-lifewritingbook Sometimes I write well when I'm very upset. Alice Mattison upsetwritingsometimes 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 offensive in some way. Alice Mattison governmentwritingway 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 they get to be young teenagers they're not anymore. You might go and talk to them about writing, and they'll be very self-conscious or will have detached themselves from the group. Alice Mattison teenagerselfwriting I'm very secretive. I'll write a whole novel and revise it, which might take me two years or more, and the people I know best don't know what I'm writing about. Alice Mattison writingtwoyears I love to read nonfiction and memoir, but I'm mostly interested in the piece of writing more than the person. Alice Mattison nonfictionpieceswriting I remember I had had one woman who had three or four kids, and some of them were having problems. I said, 'Maybe you could go write somewhere else, away from your house.' And sure enough, all kinds of wonderful stuff emerged. She was keeping too much charge of herself because she couldn't stop being a mother when she was in the house. You have to find your own way of letting loose, if you're one of those people. Alice Mattison motherwritingkids Sometimes it's interesting to see what people who have too much control need to do to write freely. Alice Mattison writingpeopleinteresting Writing and drawing are very therapeutic, but they are also an excellent manifestation tool. I teach my clients to draw what they want, or to write a story about it to bring the manifestation forward into the present. Alice McCall drawingtoolswriting When I'm not writing, I can't make sense of out anything. I feel the need to make some sense and find some order, and writing fiction is the only way I've found that seems to begin to do that. Alice McDermott writingorderneeds The writing itself is the thing that generates stories for me. Alice McDermott storieswriting A book tour is, first and foremost, an exercise in humility. Alice McDermott humilitywritingbook The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it. Alice Miller child-abusewritingchildren I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn't that the truth, but to feel some kind of reward from the writing, and that doesn't mean that it has to be a happy ending or anything, but just that everything the story tells moves the reader in such a way that you feel you are a different person when you finish. Alice Munro writingmeanmoving Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets. Alice Munro hardenjoywriting Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about. Alice Munro anecdoteswritingpeople«3738394041424344454647»
