Alice Mattison Quotes

Sometimes indirect style and varying chronology is great, but quite often I've seen it be just something that gets in the way. It turns out when I talk to the writer that she or he, and more often it's a woman, that she's worried.

Alice Mattison

• Style
• Sometimes
• Worried
• Indirect
• Chronology

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• Sometimes indirect style and varying chronology is great, but quite often I've seen it be just something that gets in the way. It turns out when I talk to the writer that she or he, and more often it's a woman, that she's worried.

  

  Alice Mattison
  • Style
  • Sometimes
  • Worried