Quotes by Alice Mattison

Alice Mattison

Certainly children are being encouraged far more than they were seventy-five years ago and are more accepted as they are.

Accepted

Children

Years

Even murderers, I suppose, experience the loss of car keys the way the rest of us do. I mean, how can they not? Once you make this person scramble around the house looking for her car keys and finally find them, get in the car, and run into traffic, we can identify with her enough that when she stops the car and pulls the gun out of her purse and heads in to kill somebody, we’ll be with her as much as is possible.

Loss

Mean

Running

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.

Caring

People

Thinking

For some people, it’s very easy to be spontaneous and they can pour out the most wonderful stuff. But it’s really hard to exert control over it, to think, ‘Well, this could be different. This could go in the opposite order, there could be more here and less there.’ For other people, it’s much easier to have rules and a methodology, but much harder to let loose and allow their feelings to come pouring out on the page. They’re more shy or they’re just more distant from their emotions. I think everybody starts with one or the other.

Opposites

Order

Thinking

I began to see, again and again, stories that were first confusing and second where the emotional impact was muted because the big scene came before the explanation of what was going on. There was a reverse chronological order as well as a concealment of what exactly was going on. I think often that comes out of the fear of being boring, and sometimes I think it’s just an attempt to seem clever.

Clever

Emotional

Thinking

I don’t really like to tell people to get out drugs.

Drug

People

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.

Excited

Needs

Students

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.

Book

Live Life

Writing

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

Help Me

Helping

People

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.

Kids

Mother

Writing

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Accepted

America

Belief

Book

Caring

Character

Children

Clever

Couple

Desire

Differences

Different

Drug

Easy

Editors

Emotional

Excited

Feelings

Gauges

Get Money

Giving

Government

Help Me

Helping

Helping Others

Hollywood

Ideas

Important

Keys

Kids

Kind

Knows

Littles

Live Life

Long

Loss

May

Mean

Meaningful

Mind

Mirrors

Mother

Needs

Opposites

Order

Past

People

Periods

Profession

Real

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Quotes by Alice Mattison

Alice Mattison

Certainly children are being encouraged far more than they were seventy-five years ago and are more accepted as they are.

I don’t really like to tell people to get out drugs.

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 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.

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

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