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“It's a scary thing for fiction writers, when you're always writing from the point of view both as and for someone who is different.”

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“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.”

Way Mean Persons Enough Running House Loss Car Keys Gun Traffic Murderer Purses Car Keys

Author:Alice Mattison

“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.”

People Thinking Wells Different Hard Feelings Order Easy Stuff Emotion Wonderful Easier Pages Opposites Harder Shy Over It Spontaneous Pouring Methodology Be Spontaneous

Author:Alice Mattison

“Sometimes it's interesting to see what people who have too much control need to do to write freely.”

People Needs Writing Sometimes Interesting Too Much

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“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.”

People Ifs Way Writing Kind Said Enough Problem Kids Remember Mother Three House Stuff Too Much Four Wonderful All Kinds Somewhere Else One Woman Being A Mother

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“I actually think it's sometimes easier for the control freaks to let loose.”

Thinking Sometimes Easier Freak Control Freak

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