Alice Mattison Quotes

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

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Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

Irwin Shaw
- Writing
- Football
- Hurt
I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that.

Karin Slaughter
- Always
- Violence
- Teenager
When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.

E. L. Doctorow
- Writing
- Book
- Doing
Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.

Patrick White
- Life
- Writing
- Man
The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.

Tadao Ando
- Different
- You
- Technology
Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.

Zadie Smith
- Writing
- Way
- Expressing